Reducing the risk of lethal encounters: Vessels and right whales in the Bay of fundy and on the Scotian shelf

Endangered Species Research

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 283-297

  Vanderlaan, Angelia S M ^a   Taggart, Christopher T ^a   Serdynska, Anna R ^a   Kenney, Robert D ^b   Brown, Moira W ^c,d  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^c NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM   (United States)

^d Canadian Whale Institute   (Canada)

Author keywords

Collision; Eubalaena glacialis; Fundy; Lethal encounter; Mortality; Right whale; Roseway; Shipping; Strike; Vessel

Indexed keywords

COLLISION AVOIDANCE; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ESTIMATION METHOD; MORTALITY RISK; SHIPPING; SPECIES CONSERVATION; VESSEL; WHALE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BAY OF FUNDY; SCOTIA SHELF;

BALAENIDAE; CETACEA; EUBALAENA GLACIALIS;

EID: 43149118988     PISSN: 18635407     EISSN: 16134796     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/esr00083     Document Type: Article

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