Sedation at Sea of Entangled North Atlantic Right Whales (Eubalaena glacialis) to Enhance Disentanglement

• Michael Moore ,

  * E-mail: mmoore@whoi.edu

  Affiliation Biology Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Michael Walsh,

  Affiliation Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

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• James Bailey,

  Affiliation Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

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• David Brunson,

  Affiliation Veterinary Specialty Team - Sedation, Pain Management and Anesthesiology, Pfizer Inc., Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

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• Frances Gulland,

  Affiliation Veterinary Science, The Marine Mammal Center, Sausalito, California, United States of America

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• Scott Landry,

  Affiliation Marine Animal Entanglement Response, Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies, Provincetown, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• David Mattila,

  Affiliation Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary, National Ocean Service, National Oceanographic Atmospheric Administration, Kihei, Hawaii, United States of America

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• Charles Mayo,

  Affiliation Marine Animal Entanglement Response, Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies, Provincetown, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Christopher Slay,

  Affiliation Coastwise Consulting Inc., Athens, Georgia, United States of America

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• Jamison Smith,

  Affiliation Protected Resources Division, National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanographic Atmospheric Administration, Gloucester, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Teresa Rowles

  Affiliation Marine Mammal Conservation Division, National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanographic Atmospheric Administration, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

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