Risk of whale entanglement in fishing gear tied to size of cool-water habitat (IMAGE)

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Risk of whale entanglement in fishing gear tied to size of cool-water habitat

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Conceptual summary on the utility of the cumulative Habitat Compression Index as an rate tracker of thermal habitat availability pertaining to ecosystem shifts (involving humpback whales and their prey in slope and shelf coastal habitats) to inform whale entanglement mitigation science strategies in the central CCLME (e.g., tactical and strategic ecosystem-based fishery management).

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Santora JA, et al., 2025, PLOS Climate, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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