Resource Protection Publications

Peer-Reviewed Papers

Trends in collisions between vessels and North Pacific humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) in Hawaiian waters (1975-2011). Journal of Cetacean Research and Management,13 (1) 73-80.).
Author(s): Marc O. Lammers, A. Pack, E. Lyman, and L. Espiritu
Year: 2013
Document Size: 254 KB

Humpback whales harbor a combination of specific and variable skin bacteria.
Author(s): Amy Apprill., T. Mooney, E. Lyman, A. Stimpert, and M. Rappe
Year: 2011
Description: Environmental Microbiology Reports 3: 223-32.

Reports

2018-2019 Humpback Whale Entanglement and Whale-Vessel Contact Reports, Response Efforts, and Related Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary Monitoring Research around the Main Hawaiian Islands: a Season-end Report
Author(s): Ed Lyman and Rachel Finn
Year: 2019
Document Size: 541 KB

2017-2018 Humpback Whale Entanglement and Whale-Vessel Contact Reports, Response Efforts, and Related Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary Monitoring Research around the Main Hawaiian Islands: a Season-end Report
Author(s): Ed Lyman and Rachel Finn
Year: 2018
Document Size: 747 KB

Injury determinations for humpback whales and other cetaceans reported to NOAA response networks in the Hawaiian Islands during 2013-2016
Author(s): Amanda Bradford and Ed Lyman
Year: 2018
Document Size: 690 KB

2016-2017 Humpback Whale Entanglement and Whale-Vessel Contact Reports, Response Efforts, and Related Sanctuary Research Around the Main Hawaiian Islands: a season-end Report.
Author(s): Ed Lyman and Rachel Finn
Year: 2017
Document Size: 1.12 MB

Estimating non-lethal entanglement rates through scar analysis of central North Pacific humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae): Assessment of additional body regions. Author(s): Rachel Finn
Year: 2016 Description: Master’s thesis. Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland.

2015-2016 Large whale entanglements and response efforts around the main Hawaiian Islands: a Season-end Report.
Author(s): Ed Lyman and Rachel Finn
Year: 2016
Document Size: 802 KB

2014-2015 Large whale entanglements and response efforts around the main Hawaiian Islands: a Season-end Report.
Author(s): Ed Lyman
Year: 2015
Document Size: 1 MB

Injury determinations for humpback whales and other cetaceans reported to NOAA response networks in the Hawaiian Islands during 2007-2012.
Author(s): Amanda Bradford and Ed Lyman
Year: 2015
Document Size: 527 KB

2013-2014 Large whale entanglements and response efforts around the main Hawaiian Islands: a Season-end Report.
Author(s): Ed Lyman
Year: 2014
Document Size: 665 KB

2012-2013 Large whale entanglements and response efforts around the main Hawaiian Islands: a Season-end Report.
Author(s): Ed Lyman
Year: 2013
Document Size: 710 KB

Injury determinations for humpback whales and other cetaceans reported to the Pacific Islands Region Marine Mammal Response Network during 2007‐2011.
Author(s): Amanda Bradford and Ed Lyman
Year: 2013
Description: PIFSC Working Paper WP‐13‐005.

2011-2012 Season Summary on Large Whale Entanglement threat and reports received around the Main Hawaiian Islands.
Author(s): Ed Lyman
Year: 2012
Document Size: 695 KB

Humpback Whale Protections Working Group Recommendations Report.
Author(s): Ed Lyman
Year: 2011
Document Size: 49 KB

Large Whale Entanglement 2010-2011 Season Summary.
Author(s): Ed Lyman
Year: 2011
Document Size: 8 MB

Large Whale Entanglement and Contact Reports, 2009-2010 Season Summary.
Author(s): Ed Lyman
Year: 2010
Description: NOAA Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary Reference Document.

Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary 2008-2009 Season Summary Large Whale Entanglement and Whale-vessel Contact Reports.
Author(s): Ed Lyman
Year: 2009
Document Size: 736 KB

Summary of 2007/2008 Large Whale Entanglement and Ship Strike Reports.
Author(s): Ed Lyman and David Mattila
Year: 2008
Document Size: 6 MB

Summary of 2007 Disentanglement Season.
Author(s): Ed Lyman
Year: 2007
Description: NOAA Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary Reference Document.

Summary of 2006 Disentanglement Season.
Author(s): Ed Lyman
Year: 2006
Document Size: 3 MB

Scale Modeling of Fixed-fishing Gear to Compare and Quantify Differently Configured Buoyline and Groundline Profiles: An Investigation of Entanglement Threat.
Author(s): Ed G. Lyman, and Dand McKiernan
Year: 2005
Description: Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries Technical Report TR22. Marine Fisheries, 30 Emerson Ave, Gloucester, MA 01930.

Monitoring the Habitat of the North Atlantic Right Whale in Cape Cod Bay in 2000 and a Comparison of Seasonal Caloric Availability in Cape Cod Bay with North Atlantic Right Whale Calving Rates: 1984-2000.
Author(s): Mayo, C.A., E.G. Lyman and A. DeLorenzo
Year: 2000
Description: Final report submitted to the Division of Marine Fisheries, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Boston, MA. October 2000. Contract No. SCFWE3000-8365027.

Books

Whale entanglement response and diagnosis (in) CRC Marine Mammal Medicine Handbook 3rd Ed. Chapter 3.
Author(s): Michael Moore, D. Mattila, S. Landry, D. Coughran, E. Lyman, J. Smith and M. Meÿer
Year: 2016

Abstracts for Conferences and Workshops

Morphology of mechanoreceptor afferents in aquatically-adapted cetacean skin.
Author(s): Eldredge, Sherri, D. Wiley, E. Lyman, D. Ketten
Year: 2017
Description: Abstract in the Proceedings of the 22th Biennial Conference of the Biology of Marine Mammals. Oct 22 - 27, 2017, Halifax, NS, Canada.

Comparing Baleen Whale Serious Injury events between the U.S. North Pacific and Atlantic, the Atlantic Canadian Maritimes, and the Gulf of Mexico.
Author(s): Henry, A., D. Allen, A. Bradford, J. Carretta, T. Cole, V. Helker, and E. Lyman
Year: 2017
Description: Abstract in the Proceedings of the 22th Biennial Conference of the Biology of Marine Mammals., 2017, Halifax, NS, Canada.

Unusual Stranding Occurrences of pygmy killer whales in Maui, Hawaii.
Author(s): Davis, Nicole, M., D. Schofield, T. Elliot, E. Lyman, R. Baird, K. West
Year: 2016
Description: Abstract Submission for the 2016 National Marine Animal Health and Stranding Network Conference, September 6 – 9, 2016. Shepherdstown, WV, USA.

Overview of large whale entanglement response in the Pacific Islands and Alaska Regions: Challenges and lessons learned.
Author(s): Lyman, Edward. A. Jensen, T. D. Schofield, K. Savage, R. Finn, N. Davis, A. Millette-Winfree
Year: 2016
Description: Abstract Submission for the 2016 National Marine Animal Health and Stranding Network Conference, September 6 – 9, 2016. Shepherdstown, WV, USA.

Entanglement reports and scar analysis of humpback whales, Megaptera novaeangliae, in Hawaiian waters (2003 – 2016).
Author(s): Lyman, Edward., R. Finn, D. Mattila, J. Moore, J. Neilson, J. Carrier, C. DeFazio, C. Gabriele, J. Martinez
Year: 2016
Description: Abstract Submission for the 2016 National Marine Animal Health and Stranding Network Conference, September 6 – 9, 2016. Shepherdstown, WV, USA.

Entanglement reports and scar analysis of humpback whales, Megaptera novaeangliae, in Hawaiian waters (2003 – 2015): Foundation towards future full-body analysis of entanglement threat.
Author(s): Ed Lyman, R. Finn, D. Mattila, J. Moore, J. Neilson, J. Carrier, C. DeFazio, C. Gabriele, J. Martinez
Year: 2015
Description: Abstract in the Proceedings of the 21th Biennial Conference of the Biology of Marine Mammals. Dec 13 - 18, 2015, San Francisco, CA, USA.

Principles, Guidelines and a Strategy for building capacity to respond to entangled large whales: Building a Global Whale Entanglement Response Network.
Author(s): David A. Mattila, Bjørge, R. AnYong, P. Cottrell, D. Coughran, G. Donovan, A. Frisch, F. Gulland, A. Knowlton, S. Landry, W. Ledwell, E. Lyman, M. Marcondes, C. Mayo, M. Meyer, M. Moore, M. Morrissey, E. Øen, J. Robbins, T. Rowles, M. Simmonds, J. Smith, H. Sohn, J. Toole, L. Trejos Lasso, M. Uhart
Year: 2015
Description: Abstract in the Proceedings of the 21th Biennial Conference of the Biology of Marine Mammals. Dec 13 - 18, 2015, San Francisco, CA, USA.

Trends in collisions between vessels and North Pacific humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) in Hawaiian waters (1975-2011).
Author(s): Marc O. Lammers, Pack, A.A., Lyman, E.G. and Espiritu, L.
Year: 2013
Description: Journal of Cetacean Research and Management, 13(1): 73-80.

Trends in Collisions Between Vessels and North Pacific Humpback Whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) in their Principal Calving Grounds (1975 – 2011).
Author(s): Adam Pack, Lammers, M., Lyman, E., Davis, L.
Year: 2013
Description: Abstract in the Proceedings of the 20th Biennial Conference of the Biology of Marine Mammals. Dec. 9 – 13, 2013, Dunedin, NZ.

All Tied Up: A closer look at humpback whale entanglements in Alaska, 1990 – 2011.
Author(s): Jackson, K., A. Jensen, and E. Lyman
Year: 2011
Description: Abstract in the Proceedings of the 19th Biennial Conference of the Biology of Marine Mammals. Nov. 28 – Dec 2, 2011 Tampa, FL, USA.

A Large Whale Entanglement Response Network: the advantages of subtropical seas and effort in a humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) wintering ground towards gaining insight into entanglement threat.
Author(s): Ed Lyman, D. Mattila, D. Schofield, E. Roberts, L. White, C Yoshinaga, J. Viezbicke, N. Davis, P. Wong, J. Souza, and B. LaCour
Year: 2011
Description: Abstract in the Proceedings of the 19th Biennial Conference of the Biology of Marine Mammals. Nov. 28 – Dec 2, 2011 Tampa, FL, USA.

Trends in Collisions Between Vessels and North Pacific Humpback Whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) in their Principal Calving Ground (1975 – 2011).
Author(s): Adam Pack, M. Lammers, E. Lyman, and L. Davis
Year: 2011
Description: Abstract in the Proceedings of the 19th Biennial Conference of the Biology of Marine Mammals. Nov. 29 – Dec 3, 2011 Tampa, FL, USA.

All Tied Up: Taking a Closer Look at Humpback Whale Entanglement in Alaska, 1990-2009.
Author(s): Aleria Jensen, K. Jackson, and E. Lyman
Year: 2010
Description: Poster, National Marine Animal Health and Stranding Network Conference, Shepherdstown, WV, April 6-9, 2010.

A preliminary investigation of gear entangling humpback whales, Megaptera novaeagliae, in the North Pacific.
Author(s): Ed Lyman, J. Cordaro, K. Jackson, A. Jensen, D. Mattila, B. Norberg, L. Spaven, S. Wilkin, K. Wilkinson
Year: 2009
Description: Abstract for SPLASH Symposium at 18th Biennial Conference of the Biology of Marine Mammals. October 11, 2009. Quebec, Canada.

Reliability of Eyewitness Reports of Entangled Large Whales: What do formal disentanglement programs tell us about the global problem?
Author(s): Ed G. Lyman, J. Kenney, S. Landry, D. Mattila, and J. Robbins
Year: 2007
Description: Abstract in the Proceedings of the 17th Biennial Conference of the Biology of Marine Mammals. Nov. 29 – Dec 3, 2007 Cape Town, South Africa.

Necessity is the Mother of Invention: Better Disentanglement Through Trial, Error, and Creative Design.
Author(s): Scott Landry, R. Bowman, M. Moore, D. Hartley, E. Lyman, D. Mattila, D. Moran, and C. Mayo
Year: 2005
Description: Abstract in the proceedings of the 16th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals. San Diego, CA, December 12 - December 16, 2005

The Massachusetts Right Whale Conservation Program: A comprehensive and Collaborative Effort to Protect the Most Endangered Large Whale, the North Atlantic right Whale, off the Coast of Massachusetts.
Author(s): Ed Lyman, and Dand McKiernan
Year: 2005
Description: Abstract in the proceedings of the 16th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals. San Diego, CA, December 12 - December 16, 2005.

The Use of Mini-Loggers, Small, Archival, Pressure Tags, to Profile and thus Better Understand the Dynamic Nature of Fixed-Fishing Gear as it Pertains to Entanglement Threat: A New Tool to Access Entanglement Risk in Fixed-Fishing Gear.
Author(s): Ed Lyman, and Dand McKiernan
Year: 2005
Description: Abstract in the proceedings of the 16th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals. San Diego, CA, December 12 - December 16, 2005.

New Telemetry Analysis Tools for Entangled Whales.
Author(s): Bowman, B, T. Johnson, and E. Lyman
Year: 2003
Description: Abstract in the proceedings of the 14th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals. Greensboro, NC, Dec 6- 11, 2003.

Habitat Management Lessons from a Satellite-Tracked Right Whale.
Author(s): Bowman, B., E. Lyman, D. Mattila, C. Mayo, M. Brown
Year: 2001
Description: Abstract in the proceedings of the 14th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals. Vancouver, Canada, November 28 - December 3, 2001.

Developing a network of marine professionals for the rescue of entangled whales.
Author(s): Bowman, B., E. Lyman, D. Mattila, C. Mayo
Year: 1999
Description: Abstract in the proceedings of the 13th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals. Maui, Hawaii. November 27 - December 3, 1999.

The influence of prey patch structure on the distribution of right whales.
Author(s): Finzi J., C. Mayo, E. Lyman, and M. Brown
Year: 1999
Description: Abstract in the proceedings of the 13th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals. Maui, Hawaii. November 27 - December 3, 1999.

A Technique for Disentangling Large Free-Swimming Whales.
Author(s): Ed G. Lyman, B. Bowman, D. Mattila, and C. Mayo
Year: 1999
Description: Abstract in the Proceedings of the 13th Biennial Conference of the Biology of Marine Mammals. Nov. 28-Dec. 3. Wailea, Maui, Hawaii.

A Multi-Dimensional Resource Utilization Paradigm for Right Whales in Cape Cod Bay.
Author(s): Goldman, L.A., C. Mayo, E. Lyman, and M. Marx
Year: 1995
Description: Abstract in the proceedings of the 11th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals, Orlando, FL, Dec 14 – 18, 1995.

International Whaling Commission Reports

A Summary of Ship Strikes and the Operation of a High-speed Ferry in Hawaii.
Author(s): Ed Lyman, D. Mattila, D. Schofield and J. Walters
Year: 2014
Description: International Whaling Commission Paper. SC/63/E4
Document Size: 344 KB

Report of the Second Workshop on Welfare Issues Associated with the Entanglement of Large Whales, with a Focus on Entanglement Response.
Author(s): International Whaling Commission
Year: 2013
Description: J. Cetacean Res. Manage. (Suppl.) 14:417-35.
Document Size: 900 KB

Report of the Second Workshop on Welfare Issues Associated with the Entanglement of Large Whales, with a Focus on Entanglement Response. Annex D. Example Entanglement Response Data Form.
Author(s): International Whaling Commission
Year: 2013
Description: J. Cetacean Res. Manage. (Suppl.) 14:431.

Report of the Second Workshop on Welfare Issues Associated with the Entanglement of Large Whales, with a Focus on Entanglement Response. Annex E. Principles and Guidelines for Large Whale Entanglement Response Efforts.
Author(s): International Whaling Commission
Year: 2013
Description: J. Cetacean Res. Manage. (Suppl.) 14:431-33.

Report of the Second Workshop on Welfare Issues Associated with the Entanglement of Large Whales, with a Focus on Entanglement Response. Annex F. Recommended Approach to Capacity Building and Training.
Author(s): International Whaling Commission
Year: 2013
Description: J. Cetacean Res. Manage. (Suppl.) 14:434-35.

Report of the IWC Workshop on Mitigation and Management of the Threats Posed by Marine Debris to Cetaceans.
Author(s): International Whaling Commission
Year: 2014
Description: August 5-7, 2014, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. Paper IWC/65/CCRep04 presented to the IWC Commission Meeting, September 2014, Portoroz, Slovenia.

Reliability of eyewitness reports of large whale entanglement.
Author(s): Robbins, J., J. Kenney, S. Landry, E. Lyman, and D. Mattila
Year: 2014
Description: International Whaling Commission Paper. SC/59/BC2
Document Size: 44 KB

Scientific Information that can be Gained Through Large Whale Disentanglements.
Author(s): David K. Mattila, S. Landry, E. Lyman, J. Robbins, and T. Rowles
Year: 2007
Description: International Whaling Commission Paper. SC/59/BC1.

A Note on the Entanglement of Large Whales in Marine Debris.
Author(s): David K. Mattila and Ed Lyman
Year: 2014
Description: International Whaling Commission paper, SC/58/BC2.
Document Size: 2 MB