Whale mortality from ship collisions underreported, case studies from Ecuador and West Africa. Scientific Committee document SC/57/BC1, International Whaling Commission, May-June 2005, Ulsan, Korea

• Main Authors: Félix, F., Van Waerebeek, K.
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: 2005
• Subjects: Balaenoptera borealis [Sei whale]; Balaenoptera edeni [Bryde's whale]; Megaptera novaeangliae; Guayaquil; Las Palmas; Pacific; Balaenoptera borealis; Sei Whale
• Online Access: https://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/243202.pdf

We document two cases of whales struck by container cargo vessels, one each in the Southeast Pacific and the Eastern Tropical Atlantic. The 207m-length P&O Nedlloyd Pantanal collided with an adult Bryde’s whale Balaenoptera edeni in the southern Gulf of Guayaquil, Ecuador, on 10 December 2004. T...