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Serious injury determinations for small cetaceans off the southeast U.S. coast, 2007-2011
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Description:"The Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) requires NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) to distinguish between injuries to marine mammals that are serious and not serious. During 2012 NMFS issued a policy directive and procedural directives to establish a process for distinguishing serious from non-serious injuries (NMFS 2012a, b). This document summarizes serious injury determinations for small cetaceans in southeast U.S. waters for the 5-year period 2007-2011. The data included in this report came from various sources, including the NOAA National Marine Mammal Health and Stranding Response Database, the Marine Mammal Authorization Program (fisherman self-reports), incidental take reports (unauthorized research gear takes), fishery observer records (excluding the pelagic longline fishery), and opportunistic at-sea observations by NOAA and non-NOAA researchers, marine patrol, and private citizens. All instances in the data for which a small cetacean was released alive following a human interaction, such as an entanglement in fishing gear or marine debris or a hooking, or observed alive at-sea entangled in fishing gear or debris, hooked, or boat struck, were evaluated"--Introduction and method. [doi:10.7289/V5/RD-PRBD-2016-04 (http://doi.org/10.7289/V5/RD-PRBD-2016-04)]
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Content Notes:Katherine Maze-Foley and Lance P. Garrison.
"June 2016."
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