CRD 05-08 Table 4

CRD 05-08 Table 4. Confirmed human-caused mortality and serious injury records of North Atlantic humpback whales, 1999 - 2003. Records from the Gulf of Maine humpback whale stock are indicated by an asterisk (*) following the date. Stock identification of the remaining records awaits genetic analysis results. These may identify additional Gulf of Maine whales.
Date	Report Type	Sex, age, ID length	Location	Assigned Cause: P=primary, S=secondary		Notes
Date	Report Type	Sex, age, ID length	Location	Ship strike	Entang./ Fsh.inter	Notes
1/12/99*	mortality	9.7m male	Martha’s Vineyard, MA		P	Fresh and extensive rope marks on carcass with associated hemorrhaging
3/6/99*	mortality	13.8m female and calf	Bequia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines			Two whales taken by the Bequian harpoon fishery
8/2/99*	serious injury	9.4m estimated	Bay of Fundy, Canada		P	Single wrap of ½ inch poly line pinning flippers
9/23/99*	serious injury	unknown	off Chatham, MA		P	Line out of mouth and several wraps around body; possibly anchored
1/8/00	serious injury	9.9m estimated	30mi east Cape Lookout, NC		P	whale swam off with 600' of sea trout sink gillnet, a chain anchor and a high flyer in tow
8/4/00*	serious injury	10.7m estimated	Bay of Fundy, Canada		P	gillnet wrapped on head with weighted trailing line giving tension
9/6/00*	serious injury	<1 yr old, calf of “Giraffe”	Stellwagen Bank, MA		P	single line wrapped across back; constriction will increase as whale grows
10/14/00	serious injury	9.9m estimated	off Ocean City Inlet, MD		P	Heavily entangled in line and netting; constrictive--fresh wounds noted
10/20/00*	serious injury	10 yr old male “Tribble”	Stellwagen Bank, MA		P	Entangled in green poly line on multiple body parts; appears constrictive
1/25/01	mortality	6.9m estimated	Avon, NC	P		extensive hemorrhaging along left thoracic, clean cut through center of vertebrae; ship strike
4/8/01	mortality	7.9m juvenile male	Myrtle Beach, SC	S	P	pre-mortem evidence of chronic line entanglement; severe prop wounds
4/8/01	mortality	7.6m juvenile male	Emerald Isle, NC		P	entanglement around peduncle caused extensive edema, hemorrhaging
4/9/01*	mortality	8.8m juvenile female “Inland”	offshore of Sandbridge, Virginia Beach		P	found anchored in gillnet gear; line wraps around rostrum had immobilized the whale
7/29/01*	mortality	8.5m juvenile female	floating south of Verrazano Bridge, NY	P		large laceration on left side of head, extensive fracturing of skull
10/1/01*	mortality	11.4m 3 yr old female “Pitfall”	Duxbury Beach, MA	P		massive fracturing to skull, focal bruising indicative of pre-mortem ship strike
2/8/02	mortality	8.4m juvenile female	off Cape Henry, VA	P		three large lacerations, hemorrhaging, broken bones
3/24/02	mortality	8.0m juvenile male	off Virginia Beach, VA		P	deep cuts on caudal peduncle and tail indicative of embedded line
6/3/02*	mortality	9.9m	off Cape Elizabeth, ME		P	deep cuts on caudal peduncle indicative of embedded line
6/17/02*	serious injury	10.2m estimated	Cape Cod Bay, MA		P	fluke severely damaged by line, whale emaciated
8/1/02*	mortality	9.3m male	Long Island, NY	P		large hematoma posterior to blow holes
10/1/02*	mortality	7.5m female calf	Plymouth, MA		P	Found wrapped in lobster warp, extensive bruising
6/6/03	mortality	8.3m female	Chesapeake Bay mouth, VA	P		Major trauma to right side of head, hematoma
7/9/03*	serious injury	calf of Shockwave	Bay of Fundy, Canada		P	Constricting entanglement on a young whale
7/12/03	serious injury	unknown	Oregon Inlet, NC		P	Entangled in substantial amount of gear
8/15/03*	mortality	7.3m (est) calf	Petit Manan Island, ME		P	Floating offshore wrapped in line
8/16/03*	serious injury	unknown	off Cape Cod, MA		P	Poor body condition; line deeply embedded
8/18/03*	serious injury	unknown	off Cape Cod, MA		P	Extensive entanglement
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