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    Fatally entangled right whales can die extremely slowly

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    Date
    2006-09
    Author
    Moore, Michael J.  Concept link
    Bogomolni, Andrea L.  Concept link
    Bowman, Robert  Concept link
    Hamilton, Philip K.  Concept link
    Harry, Charles T.  Concept link
    Knowlton, Amy R.  Concept link
    Landry, Scott  Concept link
    Rotstein, David S.  Concept link
    Touhey, Kathleen M.  Concept link
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    Citable URI
    https://hdl.handle.net/1912/1505
    As published
    https://doi.org/10.1109/OCEANS.2006.306792
    DOI
    10.1109/OCEANS.2006.306792
    Abstract
    Unlike smaller marine mammals that lack the mass and power to break free from serious entanglements in fixed fishing gear, right whales can do so, but they are not always rope free. The remaining rope can gradually constrict one or more body parts and the resulting debilitation and ultimate death can take many months. Thus the practices that lead to these mortalities need to be viewed not only as a conflict between the cultural and socioeconomic value of a fishery versus a potential species extinction process, but also in terms of an extreme animal welfare issue.
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    Author Posting. © IEEE, 2006. This article is posted here by permission of IEEE for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Proceedings Oceans 2006, Boston, MA, USA, 3 pp, doi:10.1109/OCEANS.2006.306792.
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    Proceedings Oceans 2006, Boston, MA, USA, 3 pp.
     
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