Abundance and Distribution of Sperm Whales in the Canary Islands: Can Sperm Whales in the Archipelago Sustain the Current Level of Ship-Strike Mortalities?

• Published in: PLOS ONE
• Main Authors: Fais, Andrea, Lewis, Tim P., Zitterbart, Daniel, Álvarez, Omar, Tejedor, Ana, Aguilar Soto, Natacha
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Lanes; North Atlantic; Sperm whale
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/40792/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/40792/1/journal_pone_0150660.PDF; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0150660; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.47783; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.47783.d001

Sperm whales are present in the Canary Islands year-round, suggesting that the archipelago is an important area for this species in the North Atlantic. However, the area experiences one of the highest reported rates of sperm whale ship-strike in the world. Here we investigate if the number of sperm...