Assateague Island National Seashore, MD - Marine Animal Strandings, 2002
2003. Assateague Island National Seashore, MD - Marine Animal Strandings, 2002. Division of Resources Management. Berlin, MD
During 2002, 30 stranded dead marine animals came ashore on Assateague Island National Seashore in Maryland. Of the total animals stranded dead on the ocean shore, there were 26 sea turtles and 4 marine mammals. The average number of total strandings per year between 1991 – 2001 for the Maryland portion of Assateague Island was 16, with a range of seven to thirty animals.
- Type
- Unpublished Report
- Date of Issue
- 2003-01
- Publisher
- Division of Resources Management
- Units
- ASIS
- Keywords
- Baltimore National Aquarium, Bottlenose dolphins, Caretta caretta, Dermochelys coriacea, Eubalaena glacialis, Kemp’s Ridley, Leatherback Turtles, Lepidochelys kempii, Lggerhead Turtles, Northern Right Whale, strandings, Tursiops truncatus