A decision support tool to assess risk of entanglement mortality to large whales from commercial fixed-gear fisheries in the Northwest Atlantic.

This document describes the development of a Decision Support Tool (DST) from its inception as a request from the Atlantic Large Whale Take Reduction Team in 2018 through a second peer review in 2023 organized by the Atlantic Scientific Review Group. The DST was built to evaluate management options that reduce the risk of entanglement of large whales in commercial fixed-gear fisheries under the jurisdiction of the Atlantic Large Whale Take Reduction Plan by allowing stakeholders to compare candidate management actions to a baseline level of risk.