CRD 08-04
Table 3. Summary of the confirmed human-caused mortality
and serious injury (>SI=) events involving baleen whale stocks along the
Gulf of Mexico coast, US east coast and adjacent Canadian Maritimes, 2002‑2006,
with number of events attributed to entanglements or vessel collisions by year |
Stock |
Mean annual mortality and SI rate
(and PBR) |
Entanglements |
Vessel Collisions |
Annual rate
(US waters / Canadian
waters) |
Confirmed mortalities
(2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006) |
Confirmed SI’s
(2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006) |
Annual rate
(US waters / Canadian waters) |
Confirmed mortalities
(2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006) |
Confirmed SI’s
(2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006) |
Western North Atlantic
right whale |
3.8 (0) |
1.4 (0.6 / 0.8) |
3 (1, 0, 1, 0, 1) |
4 (2, 1, 0, 0, 1) |
2.4 (1.8
/ 0.6) |
10 (1, 1, 2, 2, 4) |
2 (0, 0, 0, 1, 1) |
Gulf of
Maine humpback whale1 |
4.4 (1.1) |
3.0 (2.6 / 0.4) |
6 (3, 1, 1, 0, 1) |
9 (1, 4, 1, 0, 3) |
1.4 (1.4
/ 0) |
7 (2, 1, 1, 0, 3) |
0 |
Western North Atlantic fin
whale |
2.0 (4.0) |
0.8 (0.8 / 0 ) |
2 (1, 0, 1, 0, 0) |
2 (0, 0, 1, 0, 1) |
1.2 (0.8
/ 0.4) |
6 (0, 0, 2, 4, 0) |
0 |
Nova Scotian sei whale |
0.6 (0.3) |
0.2 (0.2 / 0 ) |
0 |
1 (0, 0, 0, 0, 1) |
0.4 (0.4
/ 0) |
2 (0, 1, 0, 0, 1) |
0 |
Western North Atlantic
blue whale2 |
0 (–) |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Canadian East Coast minke
whale |
2.2 (9.2) |
1.8 (1.8 / 0) |
9 (2, 5, 2, 0, 0) |
0 |
0.4 (0.4
/ 0) |
2 (0, 0, 1, 1, 0) |
0 |
Western North Atlantic
Brydes whale |
0.2 (0.3) |
0.2 (0.2 / 0) |
1 (0, 1, 0, 0, 0) |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1. Excludes events involving
confirmed members of a stock other than the Gulf of Maine feeding stock.
2. Stock abundance
estimates outdated; no PBR established for this stock. |
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