Serious Injury Determinations for Small Cetaceans off the Southeast U.S. Coast, 2015–2019

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• Personal Author:
  Maze-Foley, Katherine ; Garrison, Lance P.
• Corporate Authors:
  Southeast Fisheries Science Center (U.S.)
• NOAA Program & Office:
  NMFS (National Marine Fisheries Service) ; SEFSC (Southeast Fisheries Science Center) ; OAR (Oceanic and Atmospheric Research) ; CIMAS (Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies)
• 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 during 2015–2019.
• Keywords:
  Cetacea Estimates Wounds And Injuries Wounds And Injuries serious injury, small cetaceans, bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus
• Series:
  Southeast Fisheries Science Center reference document PRBD   2021-03
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.25923/7rrq-4t17
• Document Type:
  Reference Document
• Funding:
  Grant no. NA15OAR4320064
• Place as Subject:
  Southern States ; North Atlantic Ocean ; United States
• Rights Information:
  Public Domain
• Compliance:
  Submitted
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:3b25afebe4de31843f24abc2523b9e32912e5d307130baf3bdc6ea9c66673549
• Download URL:
  https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/31433/noaa_31433_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 5.40 MB ]