Title of the paper

Author Name1,2, Second Author Name3 … & Final Author Name4

1 Affiliation, city, country. Corresponding author: e-mail

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Abstract

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IntroductioN

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MATERIALS AND METHODS

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RESULTS

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DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS

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Adherence to Animal Welfare Protocols

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The research presented in this article has been done in accordance with the institutional and national laws and protocols for animal welfare that are applicable in the jurisdictions where the work was conducted.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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REFERENCES

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Pike, D.G., Gunnlaugsson, T., Desportes, G., Mikkelsen, B., Vikingsson, G.A. & Bloch, D. (2019). Estimates of the relative abundance of long-finned pilot whales (Globicephala melas) in the Northeast Atlantic from 1987 to 2015 indicate no long-term trends. NAMMCO Scientific Publications, 11. Retrieved from https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/NAMMCOSP/article/view/4643

Tables and figures

Tables

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Table 1. Annual takes of long-finned pilot whales in the Faroese drive hunt. Source: NAMMCO (https://nammco.no/topics/catch-database/). The highest number is emphasised in bold.

YEAR	HARVEST
1987	1,450
1988	1,738
1989	1,260
1990	917
1991	722
1992	1,572
1993	808
1994	1,201
1995	228
1996	1,524
1997	1,162
1998	815
1999	608
2000	588
2001	918

Figures

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Figure 1. Base stratification, survey effort (BSS<5) and sightings of long-finned pilot whales. Symbol size varies with group size from 1 to 500. Sightings outside of the survey area in 2007 were made by extension vessels. The Index Areas are outlined in blue (6-SIR) and red (3-SIR) (from Pike et al. 2019).

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