CRD 05-08 Table 3

CRD 05-08 Table 3. Confirmed human-caused mortality and serious injury records of North Atlantic right whales, 1999 - 2003.
Date	Report Type	Sex, age, ID	Location	Assigned Cause: P=primary, S=secondary		Notes
Date	Report Type	Sex, age, ID	Location	Ship strike	Entang./ Fsh inter	Notes
4/20/99	mortality	27+ yr. old female #1014	Cape Cod, MA	P		Fractures to mandible and vertebral column, abrasion and edema around right flipper
5/10/99	mortality	Adult female #2030	80mi east of Cape Cod, MA		P	Constricting sink gillnet gear created deep, extensive lacerations
3/01/00	serious injury	Adult male #1130	6mi east of Manomet, MA		P	Line apparently constricting left flipper; flipper discolored; abnormal cyamid distribution; bullet buoy trailing, line weighted down between whale and buoy
3/17/01	mortality	Male calf	Assateague, VA	P		Large fresh propeller gashes on dorsal caudal and acute muscular hemorrhage
6/8/01	serious injury	Adult male #1102	58mi east of Cape Cod, MA		P	Entangling gear deeply embedded; whale showing numerous signs of poor health including emaciation, skin discoloration, and abnormal cyamid distribution
6/18/01	mortality	female calf	Long Island, NY	P		Dorsal propeller wounds, sub-dermal hemorrhage
11/3/01	mortality	Adult male #1238 14 m	Magdellen Islands, Canada		P	Thoroughly wrapped up in gear, whale seen alive and well five months earlier
7/6/02	mortality	11.0m (est) female #3107	off Briar Island, NS Canada		P	carcass ashore on Nantucket, MA; caudal peduncle severely lacerated where entangled
8/22/02	serious injury	Adult female #1815	Scotian Shelf, Canada		P	line tightly wrapped around head and tail stock
8/22/02	mortality	12.6m female 1y.o.	off Ocean City, MD	P		large laceration on dorsal surface
8/30/02	serious injury	#3210 age & sex unknown	Bay of Fundy, NS		P	line tightly wrapped around rostrum, resighted in 2004 in poor condition
1/14/03	serious injury	Adult female #2240	Jacksonville, FL		P	body condition poor, gear possibly ingested
10/02/03	mortality	Adult female #2150	Digby, NS	P		Large fracture in skull, sub-dermal hemorrhage
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(Modified Jun. 13 2008)