Sources of human-related injury and mortality for U.S. Pacific West Coast marine mammal stock assessments, 2018-2022

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• Personal Author:
  Carretta, James V. ; Greenman, Justin ; Wilkinson, Kristin ; Saez, Lauren ; Lawson, Dan ; Viezbicke, Justin
• Corporate Authors:
  Southwest Fisheries Science Center (U.S.). Marine Mammal and Turtle Division. ; United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. West Coast Region. Protected Resources Division. ; Ocean Associates, Inc.
• NOAA Program & Office:
  NMFS (National Marine Fisheries Service) ; SWFSC (Southwest Fisheries Science Center) ; WCR (West Coast Region)
• Description:
  The Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) requires the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) to document human-caused mortality, non-serious injury (NSI), and serious injury (SI) of marine mammals and to compare total mortality and serious injury (MSI) to potential biological removal (PBR) thresholds (Wade 1998) in marine mammal stock assessments.
• Keywords:
  • Southwest Fisheries Science Center
  • Marine Mammal and Turtle Division
  • Stock assessment
  • Mortality
  • West Coast
  • Marine mammals
• Series:
  NOAA technical memorandum NMFS-SWFSC 705
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.25923/tj6f-y570
• Format:
  PDF
• Publisher:
  NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service ; NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service Southwest Fisheries Science Center ; NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service West Coast Region
• Document Type:
  Technical Memorandum
• License:
  https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
• Rights Information:
  CC0 Public Domain
• Compliance:
  Submitted
• Download URL:
  https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/66175/noaa_66175_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 4.21 MB]
• Collection(s):
  National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS)
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:a17a709cad7181c6cbd007c6403f64e0c67872caa43f6b1ee872e56c95086ac36e5a4b34209ddd2444ec86efd4c27179298693aa5f4e2d5450d861216c79f831