Compliance with vessel speed restrictions to protect North Atlantic right whales

PeerJ

Volumn 2014, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Silber, Gregory K ^a   Adams, Jeffrey D ^a   Fonnesbeck, Christopher J ^b  

^a NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Endangered whales; Large whale conservation; Regulatory compliance; Remote monitoring; Ship strikes; Vessel collisions; Vessel operations

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; COMPLIANCE (PHYSICAL); ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; LAW ENFORCEMENT; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NONHUMAN; NORTH ATLANTIC RIGHT WHALE; POPULATION MIGRATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; REMOTE SENSING; VELOCITY; VESSEL SPEED; WHALE;

EID: 84903822634     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21678359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.399     Document Type: Article

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