False killer whale dorsal fin disfigurements as a possible indicator of long-line fishery interactions in Hawaiian waters

Pacific Science

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 593-601

  Baird, Robin W ^a   Gorgone, Antoinette M ^b  

^a CASCADIA RESEARCH COLLECTIVE   (United States)

^b SOUTHEAST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; FISHING GEAR; INJURY; LONGLINING; WHALE;

HAWAIIAN ISLANDS; OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); WORLD;

ANIMALIA; CETACEA; PSEUDORCA; PSEUDORCA CRASSIDENS; SCOMBRIDAE GEN. SP.; XIPHIAS GLADIUS;

EID: 25444456928     PISSN: 00308870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/psc.2005.0042     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Baird, R. W., and P. J. Stacey. 1989. Observations on the reactions of sea lions, Zalophus californianus and Eumetopias jubatus, to killer whales, Orcinus orca, evidence of "prey" having a "search image" for predators. Can. Field-Nat. 103:426-428.
2. Baird, R. W., P. J. Stacey, D. A. Duffus, and K. M. Langelier. 2002. An evaluation of gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus) mortality incidental to fishing operations in British Columbia, Canada. J. Cetacean Res. Manage. 4:289-296.
3. Barlow, J. 2003. Cetacean abundance in Hawaiian waters during summer/ fall of 2002. National Marine Fisheries Service Southwest Fisheries Science Center Administrative Report LJ-03-13.
4. Bigg, M. A. 1982. An assessment of killer whale (Orcinus orca) stocks off Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Rep. Int. Whaling Comm. 32:655-666.
5. Bigg, M. A., G. M. Ellis, J. K. B. Ford, and K. C. Balcomb. 1987. Killer whales: A study of their identification, genealogy, and natural history in British Columbia and Washington State. Phantom Press, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada.
6. Carretta, J. V., K. A. Forney, M. M. Muto, J. Barlow, J. Baker, and M. Lowry. 2004. U.S. Pacific marine mammal stock assessments: 2003. NOAA Tech. Memo. NMFS-SWFSC 358.
7. Chivers, S. J., R. G. LeDuc, and R. W. Baird. 2003. Hawaiian island populations of false killer whales and short-finned pilot whales revealed by genetic analyses. Page 32 in Abstracts of the 15th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals, 14-19 December 2003, Greensboro, North Carolina.
8. Chu, K., and S. Nieukirk. 1988. Dorsal fin scars as indicators of age, sex, and social status in humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae). Can. J. Zool. 66:416-420.
9. Corkeron, P. J., R. J. Morris, and M. M. Bryden. 1987. Interactions between bottlenose dolphins and sharks in Moreton Bay, Queensland. Aquat. Mamm. 13:109-113.
10. Friedlaender, A. S., W. A. McLellan, and D. A. Pabst. 2001. Characterising an interaction between coastal bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) and the spot gillnet fishery in southeastern North Carolina, USA. J. Cetacean Res. Manage. 3:293-303.
11. Green, H. C., J. Ostman, and A. D. Driscoll. 1991. A case of dolphin entanglement leading to a portion of the fin being cut off-how "round nick" became "butch". Page 29 in Abstracts of the Ninth Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals, 5-9 December 1991, Chicago, Illinois.
12. Heithaus, M. R. 2001. Shark attacks on bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus) in Shark Bay, Western Australia: Attack rate, bite scar frequencies and attack seasonality. Mar. Mamm. Sci. 17:526-539.
13. Hillman, G. R., B. Würsig, G. A. Gailey, N. Kehtarnavaz, A. Drobyshevsky, B. N. Araabi, H. D. Tagare, and D. W. Weller. 2003. Computer-assisted photo-identification of individual marine vertebrates: A multi-species system. Aquat. Mamm. 29:117-123.
14. Jefferson, T. A., B. C. Curry, and N. A. Black. 1994. Harbor porpoise mortality in the Monterey Bay halibut gillnet fishery, 1989. Rep. Int. Whaling Comm. Spec. Issue 15:445-448.
15. Knowlton, A. R., and S. D. Kraus. 2001. Mortality and serious injury of northern right whales (Eubalaena glacialis) in the western North Atlantic Ocean. J. Cetacean Res. Manage. Spec. Issue 2:193-208.
16. Mann, J., R. A. Smolker, and B. B. Smuts. 1995. Responses to calf entanglement in free-ranging bottlenose dolphins. Mar. Mamm. Sci. 11:100-106.
17. Matkin, C., G. Ellis, E. Saulitis, L. Barrett-Lennard, and D. Matkin. 1999. Killer whales of southern Alaska. North Gulf Oceanic Society, Homer, Alaska.
18. Mobley, J. R., S. S. Spitz, K. A. Forney, R. A. Grotefendt, and P. H. Forestell. 2000. Distribution and abundance of odontocete species in Hawaiian waters: Preliminary results of 1993-98 aerial surveys. National Marine Fisheries Service Southwest Fisheries Science Center Administrative Report LJ-00-14C.
19. Nitta, E. T., and J. R. Henderson. 1993. A review of interactions between Hawaii's fisheries and protected species. Mar. Fish. Rev. 55:83-92.
20. Norris, K. S. 1992. Dolphins in crisis. Natl. Geogr. 182 (3): 2-35.
21. Read, A. J., P. Drinker, and S. Northridge. 2003. By-catches of marine mammals in U.S. fisheries and a first attempt to estimate the magnitude of global marine mammal by-catch. Document SC/55/BC presented to the International Whaling Commission Scientific Committee.
22. Robbins, J., and D. K. Mattila. 2001. Monitoring entanglements of humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) in the Gulf of Maine on the basis of caudal peduncle scarring. Document SC/53/NAH25 presented to the International Whaling Commission Scientific Committee.
23. Rommel, S. A., D. A. Pabst, and W. A. McLellan. 1993. Functional-morphology of the vascular plexuses associated with the cetacean uterus. Anat. Rec. 237:538-546.
24. Scott, M. D., R. S. Wells, A. B. Irvine, and B. R. Mate. 1990. Tagging and marking studies on small cetaceans. Pages 489-513 in S. Leatherwood and R. R. Reeves, eds. The bottlenose dolphin. Academic Press, New York.
25. Visser, I. N. 1998. Prolific body scars and collapsing dorsal fins on killer whales (Orcinus orca) in New Zealand waters. Aquat. Mamm. 24:71-78.
26. Visser, I. N. 2000. Killer whale (Orcinus orca) interactions with longlines fisheries in New Zealand waters. Aquat. Mamm. 26:241-252.
27. Visser, I. N., and D. Fertl. 2000. Stranding, resighting, and boat strike of a killer whale (Orcinus orca) off New Zealand. Aquat. Mamm. 26:232-240.
28. Wells, R. S., and M. D. Scott. 1997. Seasonal incidence of boat strikes on bottlenose dolphins near Sarasota, Florida. Mar. Mamm. Sci. 13:475-480.
29. Wells, R. S., S. Hofmann, and T. L. Moors 1998. Entanglement and mortality of bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops truncatus, in recreational fishing gear in Florida. Fish. Bull. 96:647-650.