Frequency of Injuries from Line Entanglements, Killer Whales, and Ship Strikes on Bering-Chukchi-Beaufort Seas Bowhead Whales

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: George, J. Craig, Sheffield, Gay, Reed, Daniel J., Tudor, Barbara, Stimmelmayr, Raphaela, Person, Brian T., Sformo, Todd, Suydam, Robert
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 2017
• Subjects: bowhead whale; Balaena mysticetus; ship strike; Arctic Ocean; Bering Sea; line entanglement; commercial gear entanglement; Orcinus orca; killer whale predation attempts; propeller injuries; scars; aboriginal whaling; baleine boréale; collision avec des navires; mer de Béring; emmêlement dans les filets; emmêlement dans les engins de pêche commerciale; tentatives de prédation par les épaulards; blessures infligées; cicatrices; chasse à la baleine chez les Autochtones; Arctic; Baleine; Canada; Greenland; la Baleine; Chukchi; Groenland; Killer Whale; Mer de Béring; Orca; Sea ice; Tchouktche*; Alaska; Killer whale
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/67669

We analyzed scarring data for Bering-Chukchi-Beaufort (BCB) Seas bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) harvested by Alaska Native hunters to quantify the frequency of line entanglement, ship strikes, and killer whale-inflicted injuries. We had 904 records in our database for whales landed between 1990...