Co-occurrence of gray whales and vessel traffic in the North Pacific Ocean

• Published in: Endangered Species Research
• Main Authors: GK Silber, DW Weller, RR Reeves, JD Adams, TJ Moore
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Inter-Research 2021
• Subjects: Zoology; QL1-991; Botany; QK1-989; Bering Sea; Okhotsk; Gulf of Alaska; Pacific; Kamchatka Peninsula; Kamchatka; okhotsk sea; Alaska; Aleutian Islands
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3354/esr01093; https://doaj.org/article/3df971a7b1a247f4966c6a4eb474df99

All species of large whales are susceptible to vessel strikes, but the true scale and geographical extent of such strikes is not known. This paper provides a qualitative assessment of the range-wide risks posed to gray whales Eschrichtius robustus by vessels, by comparing patterns of whale distribut...