Efficacy of a voluntary area to be avoided to reduce risk of lethal vessel strikes to endangered whales

Conservation Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1467-1474

  Vanderlaan, Angelia S M ^a   Taggart, Christopher T ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Endangered whales; Marine area closure; Roseway Basin; Ship strikes; Vessels; Voluntary compliance; Voluntary conservation practices

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION PLANNING; ENDANGERED SPECIES; MORTALITY; POLICY IMPLEMENTATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; VESSEL; VOLUNTARY APPROACH; WHALE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; SHIP; WHALE;

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENDANGERED SPECIES; SHIPS; WHALES;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ROSEWAY BASIN; SCOTIA SHELF;

BALAENIDAE; CETACEA; EUBALAENA GLACIALIS;

EID: 70450255216     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2009.01329.x     Document Type: Article

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