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: Andrea Fais, Tim P Lewis, Daniel P Zitterbart, Omar Álvarez, Ana Tejedor, Natacha Aguilar Soto
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016
• Subjects: Medicine; R; Science; Q; Lanes; North Atlantic; Sperm whale
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0150660; https://doaj.org/article/886b649202cc4de0a4fb0a98bde1fe2d

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...