@article{ad84e3f96b0748389bf8461ac059467e,
title = "Origin and Persistence of Markings in a Long-Term Photo-Identification Dataset Reveal the Threat of Entanglement for Endangered Northern Bottlenose Whales (Hyperoodon ampullatus)",
author = "Feyrer, {Laura Joan} and Madison Stewart and Jas Yeung and Colette Soulier and Hal Whitehead",
note = "Funding Information: LF was responsible for project conception, funding acquisition, supervision, data collection, project administration, analysis, data visualization, writing, and editing. MS was responsible for data analysis, validation, visualization, writing, and editing. JY was responsible for data analysis, validation, visualization, and editing. CS was responsible for data analysis, validation, and editing. HW was responsible for funding acquisition, data collection, project administration, supervision, and editing. All authors listed have made a substantial, direct and intellectual contribution to the work, and approved it for publication. Funding Information: We would like to acknowledge the contributions of three decades of volunteers and students that participated in the field and lab to collect and process the data used in this study. Wayne Ledwell and Julie Huntington of the Whale Release and Strandings Group in Newfoundland who reviewed and ranked photos of possible entanglement, providing much additional insight, the photograph of the whale in Figure 6C as well as some inspired whale poetry. Dr. Patrick Miller conducted fieldwork in the Gully in 2013 and Kristi O?Brien contributed photos of entangled Sowerby?s from those trips, which were important to the analysis conducted here. We gratefully acknowledge Dr. Hilary Moors-Murphy for their efforts to digitize the catalog and the funding support of Species at Risk and Oceans Management branches in the Maritimes Region of Fisheries and Oceans Canada. We would also like to recognize that Dalhousie University is located in Mi?kma?ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi?kmaq people. Without this support our research would not have been possible. Funding. This work was supported by grants and funding agreements with Species at Risk and Oceans Management branches in the Maritimes Region of Fisheries and Oceans Canada. In addition, LF and HW received funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and Killam Trusts. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Copyright {\textcopyright} 2021 Feyrer, Stewart, Yeung, Soulier and Whitehead.",
year = "2021",
month = may,
day = "5",
doi = "10.3389/fmars.2021.620804",
language = "English",
volume = "8",
journal = "Frontiers in Marine Science",
issn = "2296-7745",
publisher = "Frontiers Media S. A.",
}