Baleen whales in the northwest Atlantic are particularly vulnerable to boat injuries in densely inhabited regions, shipping routes, and fishing grounds

Baleen whales in the northwest Atlantic are particularly vulnerable to boat injuries in densely inhabited regions, shipping routes, and fishing grounds, according to a spatiotemporal vulnerability analysis conducted under current and climate change conditions

Article URL : https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0315909

Article title: Assessing changing baleen whale distributions and reported incidents relative to vessel activity in the Northwest Atlantic

Author countries: Canada

Funding: This study was funded as part of a Canada First Research Excellence Fund grant to the Ocean Frontier Institute, with additional support by the Jarislowsky Foundation (DPT) and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Discovery Grant RGPIN-2020-06873 (DPT) and RGPIN 2017-05118 (BW). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

PLOS ONE

10.1371/journal.pone.0315909

Assessing changing baleen whale distributions and reported incidents relative to vessel activity in the Northwest Atlantic

15-Jan-2025

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.