Service Description: An unusual mortality event (UME) is defined under the Marine Mammal Protection Act as a stranding event that is unexpected, involves a significant die-off of any marine mammal population, and demands immediate response. There are seven criteria that make a mortality event "unusual." If the national Working Group on Marine Mammal Unusual Mortality Events, a group of marine mammal health experts, determines that an event meets one or more of the criteria, then it forwards a recommendation to NOAA’s Assistant Administrator for Fisheries to declare a UME. Beginning in 2017, elevated mortalities in North Atlantic right whales (Eubalaena glacialis) have been documented, primarily in Canada but some in the U.S., and were collectively declared an UME. The leading category for the cause of death associated with the UME is human interaction, specifically from entanglements or vessel strikes. The purpose of this dataset is to visualize the spatial distribution of the UME's dead animal locations.
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Description: This dataset contains the dead animal stranding locations associated with the 2017-2023 Right Whale Unusual Mortality Event. The locations of the features represent where the whale was first reported/observed.
NOAA Fisheries' Office of Protected Resources Marine Mammal Health and Stranding Response Program
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Spatial Reference: 4326 (4326)
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