Table 5.   Confirmed human-caused mortality and serious injury records of Gulf of Maine humpback whales, 2001–2005.  All records were assumed to involve members of the Gulf of Maine humpback whale stock unless a whale was confirmed to be a member of another stock.  This is in contrast to prior reports.

Date	Report Type	Sex, age, length	Location	Assigned Cause: P=primary, S=secondary		Notes / Observations
				Ship strike	Entang./ Fsh inter
1/25/01	mortality	Sex & age unknown 6.9m (est)	Avon, NC	P		Extensive hemorrhaging along left thoracic; clean cut through vertebrae
4/7/01	mortality	Male Juvenile 7.6m	Emerald Isle, NC		P	Entanglement  around peduncle caused extensive edema and hemorrhaging; no gear recovered
4/8/01	mortality	Male Juvenile 7.9m	Myrtle Beach, SC	S	P	Pre-mortem evidence of chronic line entanglement; severe prop wounds; no gear recovered
4/9/01	mortality	Female Juvenile “Inland” 8.8m	offshore of Sandbridge, Virginia Beach		P	Found anchored in croaker sink gillnet gear; line wraps around rostrum had immobilized the whale
7/29/01	mortality	Female Juvenile 8.5m	floating south of Verrazano Bridge, NY	P		Large laceration on left side of head, extensive fracturing of skull
10/1/01	mortality	Female 3 yr old “Pitfall” 11.4m	Duxbury Beach, MA	P		Massive fracturing to skull, focal bruising indicative of pre-mortem ship strike
2/8/02	mortality	Female Juvenile 8.4m	off Cape Henry, VA	P		Three large lacerations, hemorrhaging and broken bones
3/24/02	mortality	Male Juvenile 8.0m	off Virginia Beach, VA		P	Deep cuts on caudal peduncle and tail indicative of embedded line; no gear recovered
6/3/02	mortality	Sex & age unknown 9.9m	off Cape Elizabeth, ME		P	Deep cuts on caudal peduncle indicative of embedded line; state waters lobster fishery
6/17/02	serious injury	Sex & age unknown 10.2m (est)	Cape Cod Bay, MA		P	Fluke severely damaged by line, whale emaciated
8/1/02	mortality	Male 9.3m	Long Island, NY	P		Large hematoma posterior to blow holes
10/1/02	mortality	Female Calf 7.5m	Plymouth, MA		P	Extensive line chaffing and bruising on carcass; no gear recovered
6/6/03	mortality	Female 8.3m	Chesapeake Bay mouth, VA	P		Major trauma to right side of head, hematoma present
7/9/03	serious injury	Calf of Shockwave	Bay of Fundy		P	Constricting entanglement on a young whale; no gear recovered
7/12/03	serious injury	unknown	Oregon Inlet, NC		P	Entangled in substantial amount of gear; no gear recovered
8/15/03	mortality	Calf 7.3m (est)	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; gear recovered included sink gillnet, vessel anchoring system and surface buoy system and endline
8/18/03	serious injury	unknown	off Cape Cod, MA		P	Extensive entanglement; no gear recovered
7/11/04	serious injury	Subadult “Lucky”	Briar Island, NS		P	Entanglement likely to become constricting as whale grows
10/3/04	mortality	Sex & age unknown 15m (est)	Georges Bank		P	Fresh carcass with entangling line and high flyer; no gear recovered
12/19/04	mortality	Calf 8.0m	Bethany Beach, DE	P		Hematoma and skeletal fracturing

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