Marine Mammal Response Program

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• Protocols and procedures
• Annual Reports
• Incidents and mortalities

There are a wide range of human activities that affect marine mammals and sea turtles including:

• fishing activities
• marine traffic
• noise
• coastal development
• pollution

Fisheries and Oceans is responsible for assisting marine mammals and sea turtles in distress. In collaboration with conservation groups and non-governmental organizations, the Department supports marine mammal incident response networks in all regions under the umbrella of the Marine Mammal Response Program.

The Marine Mammal Response Program works with partners to:

• track and respond to marine mammal entanglements, strandings (dead and live), ship strikes, and other threats
• quantify threats affecting marine mammal species, with a special focus on species assessed as at risk
• provide data and information to support Species at Risk recovery planning initiatives, mitigation options, and policy development

Protocols and procedures

• Protocol for Liaison with DFO
• Entanglement Response Procedures for Large Whales in Atlantic Canada

Annual Reports

• 2022 to 2023
• 2021 to 2022
• 2020 to 2021
• 2019
• 2018
• 2017
• 2016
• 2015
• 2014
• 2013 to 2014
• 2012 to 2013
• 2011 to 2012
• 2010 to 2011
• 2009 to 2010

Incidents and mortalities

• North Atlantic right whale - Incidents and mortalities