Formal Comment to Gong et al.: Ecosystem Scale Acoustic Sensing Reveals Humpback Whale Behavior Synchronous with Herring Spawning Processes and Re-Evaluation Finds No Effect of Sonar on Humpback Song Occurrence in the Gulf of Maine in Fall 2006
Figure 1
Sightings of baleen whales in the Gulf of Maine during right whale aerial surveys conducted by the Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC) during September 15 to October 17, for years: 1998, 2002–2008 and 2010.
FIWH = fin whale, HUWH = humpback whale, MIWH = minke whale, RIWH = right whale, SEWH = sei whale, UNFS = unidentified fin or sei whale, UNLW = unidenitified large whale.