This repository houses scripts used to produce the Southwest Fisheries Science Center's annual report on human-caused mortality and serious injury of marine mammals. Running these scripts requires access to the file HCMSI_Records_SWFSC_Main.xlsx in the SWFSC/MSI-data repository.
Most recent published report:
Carretta, James V., Justin Greenman, Kristin Wilkinson, Lauren Saez, Dan Lawson, Justin Viezbicke, and K. Alexandra Curtis. 2025. Sources of human-related injury and mortality for U.S. Pacific West Coast marine mammal stock assessments, 2019-2023. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-728. https://doi.org/10.25923/sxy3-0n21
Data associated with this report, as cited in the Data Availability statement, are available in the data folder of this repository.
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