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CRD 06-04
Table 2. Summary of the confirmed
human-caused mortality and serious injury ('SI') events involving
baleen whale stocks along the Gulf of Mexico coast, U.S. East coast and
adjacent Canadian Maritimes, 2000-2004, with number of events
attributed to entanglements or vessel collisions by year.Click
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| Stock |
Mean
annual mortality and SI rate
(and PBR)
|
Entanglements |
Vessel
Collisions |
| Annual
rate
(US waters /
Canadian waters / other waters) |
Confirmed
mortalities
(2000,
2001, 2002, 2003, 2004) |
Confirmed
SI’s
(2000, 2001,
2002, 2003, 2004) |
Annual
rate
(US waters /
Canadian waters) |
Confirmed
mortalities
(2000, 2001,
2002, 2003, 2004) |
Confirmed
SI’s |
| North Atlantic right whale |
2.8 (0) |
1.6 (0.6
/ 1.0 / 0) |
3 (0,
1, 1, 0, 1) |
5 (1,
1, 2, 1, 0) |
1.2 (1.0
/ 0.2) |
6 (0,
2, 1, 1, 2) |
0 |
| Gulf of Maine humpback whale1 |
3.0 (1.3) |
2.4 (1.8
/ 0.6 / 0) |
4 (0,
1, 2, 0, 1) |
8 (3,
0, 1, 3, 1) |
0.6 (0.6
/ 0) |
3 (0,
2, 1, 0, 0) |
0 |
| Western North Atlantic fin whale2 |
1.8 (4.7) |
0.8 (0.6
/ 0 / 0.2) |
3 (0,
1, 1, 0, 1) |
1 (0,
0, 0, 0, 1) |
1.0 (0.8
/ 0.2) |
5 (1,
2, 0, 0, 2) |
0 |
| Nova Scotian sei whale3 |
0.4 (–) |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0.4 (0.4
/ 0) |
2 (0,
1, 0, 1, 0) |
0 |
| Western North Atlantic blue whale4 |
0 (–) |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Canadian East Coast minke whale |
2.8 (3.1) |
2.6 (2.6
/ 0 / 0) |
12 (1,
2, 2, 5, 2) |
1 (1,
0, 0, 0, 0) |
0.2 (0.2
/ 0) |
1 (0,
0, 0, 0, 1) |
0 |
| Western North Atlantic Brydes
whale |
0.2 (0.3) |
0.2 (0.2
/ 0 / 0) |
1 (0,
0, 0, 1, 0) |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 Includes
only events involving confirmed members of the Gulf of Maine feeding
stock.
2 Includes an entanglement mortality found off Bermuda in 2001.
3, 4Stock abundance estimates outdated; no PBR established for these
stocks. |
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