Department of Conservation

Bottlenose Dolphin Demographics and Vessel Interactions in the Te Pewhairangi Marine Mammal Sanctuary

This contract will contain three high-level components:
1. Monitoring of marine mammals in Bay of Islands waters (BOI) across different seasons and levels of vessel activity;
2. Collation of all existing research data on bottlenose dolphins from the 1990s to present into a single database; and
3. Analyses of the collated data to produce updated demographic parameters for bottlenose dolphins using this area.