Sources of Human-related Injury and Mortality for U.S. Pacific West Coast Marine Mammal Stock Assessments, 2015-2019

This report contains human-caused injury and mortality records of pinnipeds and cetaceans that occur in U.S. west coast waters for the period 2015-2019, for those species evaluated in Pacific region marine mammal stock assessment reports (SARs) (e.g. Carretta et al. 2020b). Mortality records, while included in this report, were not a part of the SI/NSI status evaluation that included only live and/or injured animals. Subsistence and directed takes (i.e., gray whales taken by Russian natives) are not included here but are reported in SARs published by NMFS. Previous serious injury and mortality records, including cases from 2007 through 2018, are published in previous reports (Carretta et al. 2013, 2014, 2015b, 2016a, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020a). 2021 Marine Mammal Serious Injury Anthropogenic Mortality NMFS (National Marine Fisheries Service) SWFSC (Southwest Fisheries Science Center) WCR (West Coast Region) AFSC (Alaska Fisheries Science Center) NWFSC (Northwest Fisheries Science Center) Submitted https://doi.org/10.25923/cwre-v564 Public Domain 1845