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  <dc:contributor>Kristen Hart</dc:contributor>
  <dc:creator>Margaret Lamont</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>2023</dc:date>
  <dc:description>The overarching goal of the Gulf of Mexico Marine Assessment Project for Protected Species: sea turtles (GOMMAPPS) study was to collect broad-scale information on the distribution and abundance of sea turtles in the Gulf to inform seasonally- and spatially-explicit density estimates for priority species. GOMMAPPS represents a multi-agency partnership between BOEM, USFWS, NOAA, and USGS, all of whom collect information on large marine vertebrates to provide improved spatially-explicit density distributions for multiple management objectives. Though GOMMAPPS is intended to provide broad-scale information, specific locations identified for satellite tagging targeted regions of highest oil and gas activity (i.e., in the Central and Western Gulf of Mexico).</dc:description>
  <dc:format>application/pdf</dc:format>
  <dc:language>en</dc:language>
  <dc:publisher>Bureau of Ocean Energy Management</dc:publisher>
  <dc:title>Gulf of Mexico Marine Assessment Project for Protected Species: Sea Turtles</dc:title>
  <dc:type>reports</dc:type>
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