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Welfare of whales by-caught in fishing gear or struck by vessels

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2023

MJ Moore
MJ Moore*
Affiliation:
Biology Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA
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Email: mmoore@whoi.edu
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The goals of this paper are to: define terms relevant to industrially induced, but unintentional, trauma to whales; place the issue in a context of the prevalence of such mortalities in North American east coast waters; examine pertinent case studies; summarise the resultant pathobiology; and from this infer likely welfare concerns.

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animal welfareby-catchentanglementgillnetvessel collisionwhale

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Research Article
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Animal Welfare , Volume 22 , Issue 1: Including selected abstracts from the WSPA/Defra Whale Welfare and Ethics Workshop, March 2011 , February 2013 , pp. 117 - 121
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© 2013 Universities Federation for Animal Welfare

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