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Low anthropogenic mortality of humpback (Megaptera novaeangliae) and killer (Orcinus orca) whales in Norwegian purse seine fisheries despite frequent entrapments

Bjørge, Arne Jostein; Moan, André; Ryeng, Kathrine; Wiig, Jørgen Ree
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2022
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Marine mammal science. 2022, .   10.1111/mms.12985
Abstract
Fishery inspector logbooks were used to estimate fishing gear interaction rates for humpback (Megaptera novaeangliae) and killer (Orcinus orca) whales in Norwegian purse seine fisheries for herring from 2011 to 2020. Estimated rates were applied to fisheries data to estimate fleet-wide totals. Estimates showed that in a 10-year period, a total of 78 humpback whales, 95% CI [41, 145] and 100 killer whales, 95% CI [63, 176] were entrapped in purse seines. Most whales were disentangled alive, with an estimated mortality of 5%, CV 0.69, 95% CI [0.0, 11.8] and 6%, CV 0.48, 95% CI [0.3, 11.9], respectively. The average yearly mortality over the study period was thus approximately 0.60 killer whales and 0.39 humpback whales corresponding to 0.008% and 0.007% of the respective abundance estimates for these whale species in Norwegian waters. Given the Potential Biological Removal sustainability limits of 98 humpbacks and 161 killer whales per year, it may be concluded that, by itself, the average yearly mortality incurred by these whale populations by Norwegian fisheries does not constitute a significant risk to either of these species, but bycatch in Norwegian purse seine fisheries may not be the only source of anthropogenic mortality.
 
Low anthropogenic mortality of humpback (Megaptera novaeangliae) and killer (Orcinus orca) whales in Norwegian purse seine fisheries despite frequent entrapments
 
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Marine mammal science

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