Potential limits to anthropogenic mortality of small cetaceans in coastal waters of British Columbia

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
• Main Authors: Williams, Rob, Hall, Anna, Winship, Arliss
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 2008
• Subjects: Aquatic Science; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Canada; Pacific; British Columbia; Phocoena phocoena
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/f08-098; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/full-xml/10.1139/F08-098; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/F08-098

Small cetaceans are by-caught in salmon gillnet fisheries in British Columbia (BC) waters. In Canada, there is currently no generic calculation to identify when management action is necessary to reduce cetacean bycatch below sustainable limits. We estimated potential anthropogenic mortality limits f...