Forty-two incidents with gray whales were reported, including three mortalities. Collisions with fishing gear are estimated to occur approximately 20 times per year.
Mortality occurs in salmon drift gillnet, salmon seine, longline and trap fisheries.
There is also one record of an individual entangling and drowning in a herring net pen, as well as an individual entangling in a herring set gillnet. Estimates of annual mortality are approximately 2 individuals using data obtained from the questionnaire, and 2.4 individuals using stranding data. Biases are present for both sampling methods, but the estimated mortality levels are very small relative to population size.