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The Committee recognises that the IWC Table of Accepted Abundance Estimates is an important tool for the work of the Committee and the Commission. The Committee recommends that the following estimates should be incorporated into that table, uploaded to the IWC website when indicated and endorsed by the Commission. Specifically, these estimates are: (1) Māui dolphins in 2021 along the northwest coast of the North Island of Aotearoa New Zealand: 48 (95% CI 40‐57). Category 3; (2) Southwest Atlantic right whales: 3,652 (95% CI 2,884‐4,448) in 1999; 4,217 (95% CI 3,749‐4,755) in 2009; and 4,633 (95% CI 3,849‐5,681) in 2019. Category 1A; the 2019 estimate should be added to the webpage; (3) Southern right whales (New Zealand): 2,762 (95% CI 2,100‐3671) in 2009 and 4,742 whales (95% CI 3,853‐6,013) in 2020. Category 1A; (4) Southern right whales (South Africa): 1,226 (SE 52) in 1990; 2,332 (SE 77) in 2000; 4,401 (SE 151) in 2010; and 6,470 (SE 285) in 2020. Category 1A and added to the webpage; (5) Antarctic blue whales (circumpolar): 2,050 (95% CI 1,135‐3,704) in 2019. Category 3. The Committee recommends that the data from this study (SC/69A/ASI/01rev1) be endorsed as Category 4 and agrees that this decision could be revisited next year when the wording and implications of this new category are further considered (see Item 11.3); (6) Eastern North Pacific gray whales: 20,720 (95% CI 18,954‐22,720) in 2010 and 16,650 (95% CI 15,170‐18,335) in 2022. Category 1A. The entire time series should be added to the webpage (revising any previous estimate since 2007 that has changed as a result of this update, Annex D); (7) Pacific Coast Feeding Group gray whales: 147 (CV 0.09) in 2000, 201 (CV 0.09) in 2010, and 212 (CV 0.08) in 2020. Category 1A. The entire time series should be added to the webpage (see above); (8) Bowhead whales in the West Greenland feeding area: 888 (CV 0.46) in 2022. Category 1A and added to the webpage; (9) Franciscana in FMA IVb: 3,448 (95% CI 723‐16,343) in 2019; 5,710 (95% CI 1,200‐27,174) in 2022. Category 2; (10) Franciscana in FMA IVc: 1,866 (95% CI 400‐8,946) in 2019. Category 2; (11) Franciscana in Brazil portion of FMA III: 13,137 (CV 0.327) in 2021. Category 1A; (12) Franciscana in Uruguay portion of FMA III: 30,011 (CV 0.354) in 2023. Category 1A; (13) Franciscana in FMA III: 43,148 (CV 0.311) in 2022. Category 1A and added to the webpage; (14) Franciscana in FMA Ia: 1,183 (CV 0.76) in 2018. Category 1A and added to the webpage; (15) Franciscana in FMA Ib: 1,590 (CV 0.53) in 2011; and 1,521 (CV 0.47) in 2017. Category 1A and added to the webpage; (16) Franciscana in FMA II: 9,284 (CV 0.28) in 2009. Category 1A and added to the webpage; (17) Franciscana in FMA III along the Brazilian portion of the range of the stock: 9,437 (CV 0.34) in 2014. Category 2;
(18) Humpback whales in the eastern North Pacific (along the US west coast): 502 (CV 0.08) in 1989; 1,083 (CV 0.06) in 1998; 1,982 (CV 0.08) in 2008; and 4,973 (CV 0.05) in 2018. All as Category 1A; (19) Short‐finned pilot whales in the US Exclusive Economic Zone (Hawaiian Islands): 11,566 (95% CI 6,054‐22,098) in 2002; and 17,583 (95% CI 8,014‐38,576) in 2010. Category 1A; and (20) Bryde’s whales in the US Exclusive Economic Zone (Hawaiian Islands): 1,794 (95% CI 1,035‐3,109) in 2010. Category 1A. The Committee agrees that all these abundance estimates meet the definition of an Evaluation Extent of 1 (‘examined in detail by the Committee’). |