CRD 08-04 Table 4

Table 4. Confirmed human-caused mortality and serious injury records of Western North Atlantic right whales, 2002-2006

Date^a	Report Type^b	Age, Sex, ID, Length	Location^a	Assigned Cause: P=primary, S=secondary		Notes/Observations
Date^a	Report Type^b	Age, Sex, ID, Length	Location^a	Ship strike	Entang./Fsh inter	Notes/Observations
7/6/02	mortality	Yearling Female #3107 11m	Observed alive off Briar Island, NS		P	Carcass ashore on Nantucket, MA; caudal peduncle severely lacerated where entangled; gear consistent with inshore lobster fishery
8/22/02	serious injury	Adult Female #1815	Scotian Shelf, Canada		P	Line tightly wrapped around head and tail stock; no gear recovered
8/22/02	mortality	Yearling Female 12.6m	off Ocean City, MD	P		Large laceration on dorsal surface
8/30/02	serious injury	age & sex unknown #3210	Bay of Fundy, NS		P	Line tightly wrapped around rostrum; resighted in 2004 in poor condition; no gear recovered
1/14/03	serious injury	Adult Female #2240	Jacksonville, FL		P	Body condition poor; no gear recovered
10/02/03	mortality	Adult Female #2150 15m (est)	Digby, NS	P		Large fracture in skull; subdermal hemorrhage
2/7/04	mortality	Adult Female #1004 16m	Virginia Beach, VA	P		Severe subdermal bruising; complete fracture of rostrum and laceration of oral rete
9/6/04	mortality	Adult Female #2301 15m (est)	Roseway Basin, NS		P	Extensive constricting line on head and left flipper; found dead March 3, 2005 on Ship Shoal Island, VA
11/24/04	mortality	Adult Female #1909 14.9m	Ocean Sands, NC	P		Left fluke lobe severed and large bore blood vessels exposed
1/12/05	mortality	Adult Female #2143 13m	Cumberland Island, GA	P		Healed propeller wounds from strike as a calf re-opened as a result of pregnancy
3/10/05	serious injury	age & sex unknown #2425	Cumberland Island, GA	P		43 ft power yacht partially severed left fluke; resighted 9/4/05 in extremely poor condition
4/28/05	mortality	Adult Female #2617 14.7m	Monomoy Island, MA	P		Significant bruising and multiple vertebral fractures
1/10/06	mortality	Calf Male 5.4m w/out fluke	Jacksonville, FL	P		Propeller lacerations associated with hemorrhaging and edema; flukes completely severed
1/16/06	serious injury	Calf 5m (est)	Corpus Christi Bay, TX		P	Wrapping laceration with heavy cyamid load on dorsal surface of calf; vertebral processes noticeable indicating fat loss
1/22/06	mortality	Calf 5.6m	off Ponte Vedra Beach, FL		P	Significant pre-mortem lesions from entanglement in apparent monofilament netting
3/11/06	serious injury	Yearling Male #3522	Off Cumberland Island, GA	P		11 propeller lacerations across dorsal surface
7/24/06	mortality	age unknown Female 9.6m	Campobello Island, NB	P		Propeller lacerations through blubber, into muscle and ribs
8/24/06	mortality	Adult Female 14.7m	Roseway Basin, NS	P		16 fractured vertebrae; dorsal blubber bruise from head to genital region
12/30/06	mortality	Yearling Male #3508 12.6m	off Brunswick, GA	P		20 propeller lacerations along right side of head and back with associated hemorrhaging
a. The date sighted and location provided in the table are not necessarily when or where the serious injury or mortality occurred; rather, this information indicates when and where the whale was first reported beached, entangled, or injured. b. National guidelines for determining what constitutes a serious injury have not been finalized. Interim criteria as established by NERO/NMFS (Nelson et al. 2007) have been used here. Some assignments may change as new information becomes available and/or when national standards are established.

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