Access Document

and widespread basis throughout most of Lease Sale Areas 42
and 52 . They are apparently found on a more occasional and
scattered basis in Lease Sale Areas 40, 49, and 59 .
C . The odontocetes or toothed whales (only one of which,
the sperm whale . P. catodon , is endangered) of Type III are
apparently widely and regularly distributed in Lease Sale
Areas 40, 49, and 59 . The distribution of those species in
subtype III-A is widespread and year-round in the southern
half of Lease Areas 42 and 52, and in the warm-weather seasons
expands shoreward into all of Area 42 and most of Area 52 .
Subtypes III-B and III-C apparently extend their distribution
east-rardinto the southern portions of Lease Sale Areas 42 and
52 in the warm seasons only .
Figures 6a-6c show the BLM Sale Area outlines in relation to
the three general cetacean distribution types .
22