Mortality Determinations for Baleen Whale Stocks along the Gulf of Mexico, United States East Coast, and Atlantic Canadian Provinces, 2007-2011

iv INTRODUCTION 1 METHODS 1 Confirmation Criteria for Species and Mortality Event 2 Human-induced Mortality Determinations 2 Assignment to Country 3 RESULTS 3 DISCUSSION 5 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 5 LITERATURE CITED 6 Table 1. Summary of all unique large whale mortalities observed along the Gulf of Mexico Coast, US East Coast and Atlantic Canadian Provinces, 2007-2011. Determinations of human-caused mortality follow the criteria established by the NEFSC. 7 Table 2. Confirmed human-caused mortality records of baleen whale stocks along the Gulf of Mexico, US East Coast and Atlantic Canadian Provinces, 2007-2011 8 Table 3. Summary of country of origin for all confirmed human-caused mortalities of large whales along the Gulf of Mexico, US East Coast and Atlantic Canadian Provinces, 2007-2011 15