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  • Probability and mitigation of vessel encounters with North Atlantic right whales 

    Vanderlaan, Angelia SM; Corbett, James J.; Green, Shannon L.; Callahan, John A.; Wang, Chengfeng; Kenney, Robert D.; Taggart, Christopher T.; Firestone, Jeremy (Inter-Research, Nordbuente 23 Oldendorf/Luhe 21385 Germany, 2009-03)
    Successful mitigation of vessel-whale encounters requires quantitative estimates of vessel strikes, how strike rates change over time, where strikes are most likely to occur, and options for minimizing strikes. In addressing ...
  • Reducing the risk of lethal encounters: vessels and right whales in the Bay of Fundy and on the Scotian Shelf 

    Vanderlaan, Angelia S. M.; Taggart, Christopher T.; Serdynska, Anna R.; Kenney, Robert D.; Brown, Moira W. (2008)
    The North Atlantic right whale Eubalaena glacialis is endangered, in part, due to vessel-strike mortality. We use vessel traffic and right whale survey data (similar to 3 nautical miles [n miles], similar to 5.6 km resolution) ...