Entanglement is a costly life history stage in large whales

• Main Author: van der Hoop, Julie
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Canada; Herrington; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/1912/8048

Data and figures associated with the project. See ReadMe for data description Individuals store energy to balance deficits in natural cycles; however, unnatural events can also lead to unbalanced energy budgets. Entanglement in fishing gear is one example of an unnatural but relatively common circumstance that imposes energetic demands of a similar order of magnitude and duration of life history events such as migration and pregnancy in large whales. We present two complementary bioenergetic approaches to estimate the energy associated with entanglement in North Atlantic right whales, and compare these estimates to the natural energetic life history of each individual whale. This work was supported by grants from the Herrington-Fitch Family Foundation, the M.S. Worthington Foundation, the North Pond Foundation, and the Cooperative Institute for the North Atlantic Region [CINAR; NA14OAR4320158] to MJM and JvdH. JvdH was supported by a Postgraduate Scholarship from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, and an MIT Martin Family for Sustainability Fellowship.