Response of Commercial Ships to a Voluntary Speed Reduction Measure: Are Voluntary Strategies Adequate for Mitigating Ship-Strike Risk?

Coastal Management

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 634-650

  McKenna, Megan F ^a,b   Katz, Stephen L ^c   Condit, Christopher ^d   Walbridge, Shaun ^e  

^a Marine Mammal Commission   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e NATIONAL CENTER FOR ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic Identification System; baleen whales; commercial ship traffic; Local Notices to Mariners; scale mismatch; ship strike; voluntary conservation

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM; BALEEN WHALES; COMMERCIAL SHIPS; LOCAL NOTICES TO MARINERS; SCALE MISMATCH; SHIP-STRIKE;

AUTOMATION; TANKERS (SHIPS); WATERWAY TRANSPORTATION;

SPEED;

COLLISION; CONSERVATION PLANNING; ENDANGERED SPECIES; REGULATORY FRAMEWORK; VESSEL; VOLUNTARY APPROACH; WHALE;

CALIFORNIA; PACIFIC COAST [NORTH AMERICA]; PACIFIC COAST [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

BALAENOPTERA; BALAENOPTERA MUSCULUS; CETACEA; MYSTICETI;

EID: 84868291193     PISSN: 08920753     EISSN: 15210421     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08920753.2012.727749     Document Type: Article

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