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Final Technical Report: - Southwest Fisheries Science Center - NOAA

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Figure 22. Maps of the predicted<br />

number of sightings in the ETP for<br />

models that include only oceanographic<br />

data or a combination of oceanographic,<br />

net-tow, and acoustic backscatter data.<br />

Darker colors indicate higher predicted<br />

densities.<br />

The combined model gave the best fit blue whales in the CCE (Tables 14 and 15).<br />

However, predictive power was higher for the oceanographic models (Table 17), and<br />

maps of the predicted number of sightings showed several instances in which the<br />

combined model predicted higher numbers of sightings in regions where no sightings<br />

occurred (Fig. 23). Consequently, the best model for blue whales in the CCE may<br />

depend on the question that the model is built to address.

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