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Marine Mammal Interactions PEOPLE – MARINE MAMMAL INTERACTIONS EDITED BY : Andrew Butterworth and Mark P. Simmonds PUBLISHED IN : Frontiers in Marine Science Frontiers Copyright Statement About Frontiers © Copyright 2007-2017 Frontiers Media SA. All rights reserved. Frontiers is more than just an open-access publisher of scholarly articles: it is a pioneering All content included on this site, approach to the world of academia, radically improving the way scholarly research such as text, graphics, logos, button icons, images, video/audio clips, is managed. The grand vision of Frontiers is a world where all people have an equal downloads, data compilations and software, is the property of or is opportunity to seek, share and generate knowledge. Frontiers provides immediate and licensed to Frontiers Media SA permanent online open access to all its publications, but this alone is not enough to (“Frontiers”) or its licensees and/or subcontractors. 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With their The above represents a summary unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers only. For the full conditions see the Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical Conditions for Authors and the Conditions for Website Use. advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers ISSN 1664-8714 Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial ISBN 978-2-88945-231-6 DOI 10.3389/978-2-88945-231-6 Office:[email protected] Frontiers in Marine Science 1 August 2017 | People – Marine Mammal Interactions PEOPLE – MARINE MAMMAL INTERACTIONS Topic Editors: Andrew Butterworth, University of Bristol, United Kingdom Mark P. Simmonds, University of Bristol, United Kingdom A humpback whale in Faxafloi Bay, Reykjavik, Iceland - entangled in fishing gear, and unentangled by British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) and International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) with permission from the Icelandic government in August 2015. (http://uk.whales.org/blog/2015/08/happy-ending-for-nettie-humpback-entangled-off-iceland Accessed 12 6 17) Photo credit: Andy Butterworth Our relationships with marine mammals are complex. We have used them as resources, and in some places this remains the case; viewed them as competitors and culled them (again ongoing in some localities); been so captivated and intrigued by them that we have taken them into captivity Frontiers in Marine Science 2 August 2017 | People – Marine Mammal Interactions for our entertainment; and developed a lucrative eco-tourism activity focused on them in many nations. When we first envisaged this special topic, we had two overarching aims: Firstly, we hoped to generate critical evaluation of some of our relationships with these animals. Secondly, we hoped to attract knowledgeable commentators and experts who might not tradi- tionally publish in the peer-reviewed literature. We were also asking ourselves a question about what responsibility mankind might have to marine mammals, on our rapidly changing planet? The answer to the question; can, or should, humans have responsibility for the lives of marine mammals when they are affected by our activities? - is, in our opinion, ‘yes’ – and the logical progression from this question is to direct research and effort to understand and optimise the actions, reactions and responses that mankind may be able to take. We hope that the papers in this special issue bring some illumination to a small selection of topics under this much wider topic area, and prove to be informative and stimulating. Citation: Butterworth, A., Simmonds, M. P., eds. (2017). People – Marine Mammal Interactions. Lausanne: Frontiers Media. doi: 10.3389/978-2-88945-231-6 Frontiers in Marine Science 3 August 2017 | People – Marine Mammal Interactions Table of Contents 05 Editorial: People – Marine Mammal Interactions Andy Butterworth and Mark P. Simmonds 1. The latest thinking about marine mammals 07 Marine Mammal Behavior: A Review of Conservation Implications Philippa Brakes and Sasha R. X. Dall 22 Book Review: The Cultural Lives of Whales and Dolphins Erich Hoyt 2. Concerning hunting and other deliberate takes 24 Does the Seal Licensing System in Scotland Have a Negative Impact on Seal Welfare? Laetitia Nunny, Fritha Langford and Mark P. Simmonds 41 Under Pressure: Cetaceans and Fisheries Co-occurrence off the Coasts of Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire (Gulf of Guinea) Marijke N. de Boer, James T. Saulino, Koen Van Waerebeek and Geert Aarts 60 The Utilization of Aquatic Bushmeat from Small Cetaceans and Manatees in South America and West Africa A. Mel Cosentino and Sue Fisher 68 Marine Mammals in Asian Societies; Trends in Consumption, Bait, and Traditional Use Lindsay Porter and Hong Yu Lai 76 What Drives Japanese Whaling Policy? Christopher Butler-Stroud 80 Japanese Small Type Coastal Whaling Sue Fisher 3. Accidental and incidental impacts 86 An Overview of Increasing Incidents of Bottlenose Dolphin Harassment in the Gulf of Mexico and Possible Solutions Courtney S. Vail 93 A Review of the Welfare Impact on Pinnipeds of Plastic Marine Debris Andy Butterworth 103 The International Whaling Commission—Beyond Whaling Andrew J. Wright, Mark P. Simmonds and Barbara Galletti Vernazzani Frontiers in Marine Science 4 August 2017 | People – Marine Mammal Interactions EDITORIAL published: 08 June 2017 doi: 10.3389/fmars.2017.00183 Editorial: People – Marine Mammal Interactions Andy Butterworth * and Mark P. Simmonds Clinical Veterinary Science, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom Keywords: marine mammal, humans, interactions, welfare, policy making Editorial on the Research Topic People – Marine Mammal Interactions Our relationships with marine mammals are complex. We have used them as resources, and in some places this remains the case; viewed them as competitors and culled them (again ongoing in some localities); been so captivated and intrigued that we have taken them into captivity for our entertainment; and developed a lucrative eco-tourism activity focused on them in many nations (Brakes and Simmonds, 2011). In fact, the history and even the economic success of many maritime nations has been intimately intertwined with exploitation of marine mammals. In the United Kingdom, for example, stranded cetaceans were once used opportunistically for food, and this later developed into organized hunting, with the value of cetaceans recognized in 1,324 when a statute was enacted giving the English sovereign qualified rights to stranded and captured animals (Simmonds, 2011). The Scottish crown quickly moved to claim the same rights. Later, British interests moved from a focus on whale meat
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