• Welcome and opening (Doug DeMaster - Director, AKFSC)
• Participant introductions (CONCUR, Inc.)
• Objectives of the workshop (Tom Eagle, NMFS Headquarters)
• Process for the workshop (CONCUR, Inc.)
  • Agenda overview

• National Observer Program (Amy Van Atten, NER Observer Program)
  • Alaska Marine Mammal Observer Program 2005
  • New England Fisheries Observer Program Bio Sampling Manual
  • New England Fisheries Observer Program Manual 2007
  • North Pacific Groundfish Observer Program 2007
  • Pacific Islands Longline Observer Program
  • PIRO longline observer data form
  • Southeast Bottom Longline Observer Program Form
  • Southeast Bottom Longline Observer Program Manual
  • Southeast Region Pelagic Observer Program 2007
  • Southeast Region Pelagic Observer Program Form
  • Southeast Shark Gillnet Observer Program Form
  • Southwest Regional Observer Programs Biological Sampling Manual
  • West Coast Groundfish Observer Program
• Health and Stranding Program (Teri Rowles, HQ MMHSRP)
  • Handbook for Recognizing, Evaluating, and Documenting Human Interaction in Stranded Cetaceans and Pinnipeds

• Baleen whale serious injury determinations in the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico (Tim Cole - NEFSC)
  • Visual Health Assessment of North Atlantic Right Whales Using Photographs
  • Mortality and Serious Injury of Northern Right Whales in the Western North Atlantic Ocean
  • Mortality and Serious Injury in Eastern Baleen Whales 2000-2004
  • Mortality and Serious Injury in NW Atl. Large Whales 1999-2003
  • Mortality and Serious Injury in Eastern Baleen Whales 2001-2005
  • Background Paper - Fishing Gear Involved in Entanglements of Right and Humpback Whales
• Small cetacean serious injury determinations in the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico (Lance Garrison - SEFSC)
  • Interactions between marine mammals and pelagic longline fishing gear in the U.S. Atlantic Ocean between 1992 and 2004

• Serious injury determinations in the Hawaii (Karin Forney and Bud Antonelis - SWFSC)
• Cetacean serious injury determinations off the U.S. Western Contiguous Coast (Karin Forney - SWFSC)
• Large whale and pinniped serious injury determinations in Alaska (Robyn Angliss- AKFSC)
• Large whale disentanglement systems (David Mattila - NOS, Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary)
  • Reliability of Eyewitness Reports of Large Whale Entanglement
  • Scientific information that can be gained through large
    whale disentanglement

• Synthesis of regional case studies (Tim Cole - NEFSC)
• Non-NMFS evaluation of serious injury determination processes: White Paper of the AK Scientific Review Group (Kate Wynne - AK SRG)
  • Summary of AKSRG Serious Injury Test
  • White Paper
• Introduction to breakout group session (Melissa Andersen - NMFS Headquarters)

• Survival of injured North Atlantic right whales based on photo-id data and longitudinal tracking (Richard Pace - NEFSC)
• Survival of injured humpback whales, and other large whales, in the Atlantic and Pacific (Jooke Robbins - Center for Coastal Studies; John Calambokidis - Cascadia Research; Jan Straley - University of Alaska)
  1. Scar-based insight into entanglement and serious injury (Jooke Robbins)
  2. Case studies of injuries and survival along the U.S. west coast (John Calambokidis)
  3. Case studies of injuries and survival in Southeast Alaska (Jan Straley)
     • Humpback whales with severe injuries in southeastern Alaska
  4. Statistical analysis of survival (Jooke Robbins)

• Fishery interactions in small cetaceans in the mid-Atlantic (Aleta Hohn - SEFSC)
  • Estimated Bycatch of Marine Mammal and Turtles in the U.S. Atlantic Pelagic Longline Fleet During 2004
  • The Use of Geographic Information Systems as a Forensic Tool to Investigate Sources of Marine Mammal Entanglement in Fisheries
• Bottlenose dolphins in Sarasota Bay, FL (Randy Wells - Chicago Zoological Society/Mote Marine Lab)
  • Incidence of gear entanglement for resident inshore bottlenose dolphins near Sarasota, FL
  • Seasonal Incidence of Boat Strikes on Bottlenose Dolphins near Sarasota, FL
  • Unusual Deaths of 2 Free-Ranging Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphins Related to Ingestion of Recreational Fishing Gear
  • Entanglement and mortality of bottlenose dolphins in recreational fishing gear in Florida
• Limited information on interaction outcomes for Pacific false killer whales (Karin Forney to present Baird et al. scarring study and other photos)
  • False Killer Whale Dorsal Fin Disfigurements as a Possible Indicator of Long-Line Fishery Interactions in Hawaiian Waters
• Injuries and outcomes in manatees (Alex Costidis - FL Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission)
  • Methods Used During Gross Necropsy to Determine Watercraft-Related Mortality in the Florida Manatee
  • Forensic Methods for Characterizing Watercraft-Induced Wounds on the Florida Manatee

• Injuries observed in pinnipeds (CA sea lions, Northern Fur seals, and monk seals) (Terry Spraker - Colorado State University)
  • Stress and Capture Myopathy in Artiodactylids
• Predicting lethality from vessel and gear trauma in North Atlantic right whales (Michael Moore - Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst.)
  • Experimental Modeling of Large Whale Entanglement Injuries
  • Morphometry, gross morphology and available histopathology in North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis) mortalities (1970-2002)
  • Fatally entangled right whales can die extremely slowly

• Categories and consequences of injuries (David Rotstein - University of Tennessee)
• Forensic approaches to data collection (Ken Goddard-USFWS National Fish and Wildlife Forensics Lab)

• Outline breakout group sessions (CONCUR, Inc.)
  • Group composition (TBD)
  • Questions for discussion (TBD)

Breakouts Group Activity
Session One

• Group 1: Longitudinal/survival rates from a modeling perspective
• Group 2: Categorization of injuries and pathological consequences: Gear-related injuries (i.e., entanglements, hookings, and ingestions)
• Group 3: Categorization of injuries and pathological consequences: Sharp, blunt force, and penetrating injuries

Session Two

• Group 1: Large cetaceans
• Group 2: Small cetaceans
• Group 3: Pinnipeds and other species

ADJOURN DAY 3

General Background Literature