Assessing cetacean body condition: Is total lipid content in blubber biopsies a useful monitoring tool?

We would like to thank the funders: the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs and Marine Scotland, for a number of long‐term monitoring contracts awarded to SMASS, the Sea Mammal Research Unit National Capability Funding from the Natural Environment Research Council (grant no. SMRU 10001), and the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (award RC‐2337).