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Fishery Bulletin 1 12(1) 
Table 1 
Annual totals of individual (inds.) marine mammal strandings (n 
(evts.) in North Carolina during 1997-2008. 
= 1847; 34 species) recovered from 1777 reported events 
All 
All 
Species by family 
1997 
1998 
1999 
2000 
2001 
2002 
2003 
2004 
2005 
2006 
2007 
2008 
inds. 
evts. 
Balaenidae 
Eubalaena glacialis 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
5 
5 
Balaenopteridae 
Balaenoptera acutorostrata 
2 
1 
2 
2 
1 
8 
8 
Balaenoptera borealis 
1 
1 
1 
Balaenoptera edeni 
1 
1 
1 
Balaenoptera physalus 
1 
2 
3 
3 
Megaptera novaeangliae 
2 
2 
3 
5 
3 
1 
1 
2 
2 
2 
23 
23 
Unidentified balaenopterid 
1 
1 
1 
3 
3 
Delphinidae 
Delphinus delphis 
2 
2 
6 
16 
4 
8 
4 
1 
2 
1 
46 
40 
Feresa attenuata 
1 
1 
2 
2 
Globicephala macrorhynchus 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
37 
3 
45 
13 
Globicephala melas 
2 
2 
1 
1 
6 
6 
Globicephala species 
1 
2 
1 
1 
5 
5 
Grampus griseus 
1 
2 
1 
3 
2 
2 
3 
2 
1 
1 
18 
18 
Lagenorhynchus acutus 
1 
1 
1 
2 
4 
1 
1 
3 
14 
14 
Peponocephala electro 
1 
1 
2 
2 
Pseudorca crassidens 
1 
1 
1 
Stenella attenuata 
2 
1 
3 
3 
Stenella clymene 
2 
1 
1 
4 
4 
Stenella coeruleoalba 
6 
1 
1 
3 
3 
5 
1 
13 
1 
3 
2 
39 
28 
Stenella frontalis 
1 
2 
3 
2 
2 
3 
2 
1 
2 
1 
19 
18 
Stenella longirostris 
1 
2 
3 
3 
Stenella species 
1 
1 
2 
2 
Steno bredanensis 
1 
2 
3 
3 
Tursiops truncatus coastal 
127 
103 
95 
102 
88 
92 
68 
84 
75 
64 
75 
66 
1039 
1034 
Tursiops truncatus offshore 
1 
1 
2 
3 
6 
3 
2 
1 
19 
19 
Unidentified delphinid 
1 
2 
1 
2 
4 
2 
1 
3 
2 
1 
4 
23 
23 
Kogiidae 
Kogia breviceps 
3 
5 
1 
3 
2 
5 
6 
5 
6 
8 
5 
4 
53 
47 
Kogia sima 
1 
6 
4 
1 
2 
2 
4 
7 
7 
1 
35 
27 
Kogia species 
1 
1 
2 
2 
Phocidae 
Cystophora cristata 
1 
1 
5 
4 
11 
11 
Halichoerus grypus 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
2 
2 
1 
12 
12 
Pagophilus groenlandicus 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
7 
7 
Phoca vitulina 
1 
11 
2 
8 
4 
3 
15 
4 
12 
5 
2 
6 
73 
73 
Unidentified phocid 
1 
1 
1 
2 
5 
5 
Phocoenidae 
Phocoena phocoena 
25 
4 
59 
6 
21 
5 
38 
15 
43 
6 
20 
7 
249 
249 
Physeteridae 
Physeter macrocephalus 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
8 
8 
Trichechidae 
Trichechus manatus 
2 
1 
1 
1 
5 
5 
Ziphiidae 
Mesoplodon densirostris 
2 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
7 
6 
Mesoplodon europaeus 
5 
1 
2 
1 
2 
2 
13 
13 
Mesoplodon mirus 
1 
1 
1 
Mesoplodon species 
1 
1 
2 
2 
Ziphius cavirostris 
1 
1 
2 
2 
Unidentified ziphiid 
1 
1 
2 
2 
Unknown 
3 
1 
2 
1 
1 
2 
3 
4 
1 
5 
23 
23 
Total 
178 
152 
179 
149 
165 
133 
171 
139 
221 
117 
123 
120 
1847 
1777 
