Serious Injury Determinations for Small Cetaceans off the Southeast U.S. Coast, 2019–2023

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• Personal Author:
  Maze-Foley, Katherine ; Garrison, Lance P.
• Corporate Authors:
  Southeast Fisheries Science Center (U.S.) ; Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies (Key Biscayne, Fla.)
• NOAA Program & Office:
  NMFS (National Marine Fisheries Service) ; SEFSC (Southeast Fisheries Science Center) ; CIMAS (Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies) ; OAR (Oceanic and Atmospheric Research)
• 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, where a “serious injury” is defined as an injury that is more likely than not to lead to the death of the animal. NMFS has issued a policy directive and procedural directives to establish a process for distinguishing serious from non-serious injuries (NMFS 2012, 2023). This document summarizes serious injury determinations for small cetaceans in southeast U.S. waters during 2019–2023.
• Keywords:
  Cetacea Classification Wounds And Injuries Wounds And Injuries
• Series:
  Southeast Fisheries Science Center reference document   MMTD-2025-03
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.25923/s7xr-vp89
• Format:
  pdf
• Document Type:
  Reference Document
• Funding:
  Grant no. NA15OAR4320064
• Place as Subject:
  Atlantic Coast (South Atlantic States)
• License:
  https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
• Rights Information:
  CC0 Public Domain
• Compliance:
  Submitted
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:9b01aa9b09cc6bfad1a366852f608bd7f1b4276c0480a717e41eda326d95638ac075491e2212cc82bf2900a5798b9964efbdb9f2a64a0f3f8b0d16a93a9754f8
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