Diseases of Aquatic Organisms (2015)
In 2006, a marked increase in harbor porpoise Phocoena phocoena strandings were reported in the Pacific Northwest of the USA, resulting in the declaration of an unusual mortality event (UME)…
Post-mortem investigations on stranded dolphins and porpoises from Hong Kong waters
Parsons, E. C. M.; Jefferson, T. A.
Journal of Wildlife Diseases (2000)
Stranded cetaceans reported from the territorial waters of Hong Kong during the period May 1993 to March 1998 were examined to establish factors that may have contributed to their death.…
Experiences with harbour porpoises, Phocoena phocoena, in captivity: Mortality, autopsy findings and influence of the captive environment
Anderson, S. H.
Aquatic Mammals (1978)
This paper gives a survey of the fate of 67 harbour porpoises collected alive from Danish waters and kept in captivity for bioacoustical and physiological investigations. Even if the harbour…
Rake marks on a harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) calf suggestive of a fatal interaction with an Atlantic white-sided dolphin (Lagenorhynchus acutus)
Larrat, Sylvain; Measures, Lena N.; Lair, Stéphane;
Aquatic Mammals (2012)
(...) Little is known regarding other causes of mortality and population trends of harbor porpoises from the Estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Harbor porpoises have been reported to be…
An unusual mortality event of Harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) off central California: Increase in blunt trauma rather than an epizootic
Wilkin, Sarah; Cordaro, Joe; Gulland, Frances M. D.; Wheeler, Elizabeth; Dunkin, Robin; Sigler, Teri; Casper, Dave; Berman, Michelle; Flannery, Moe; Fire, Spencer; Wang, Zhihong; Colegrove, Kathleen; Baker, Jason
Aquatic Mammals (2012)
In 2007, the apparent increase in the number of harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) stranding along the central California coast compared to the number of strandings the previous year resulted in…
“Porpicide” in California: Killing of harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) by coastal bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus)
Cotter, Mark P.; Maldini, Daniela; Jefferson, Thomas A.
Marine Mammal Science (2011)
Between 2007 and 2009, we witnessed three aggressive interactions between harbor porpoises and bottlenose dolphins in Monterey Bay, California. This is the first time such aggression has been documented in…
Eat and be eaten – Porpoise diet studies
Leopold, Maarten Frederik
Doctoral Thesis - Wageningen University (2015)
1. Diet studies of marine mammals typically summarise prey composition across all individuals studied. Variation in individual diets is usually ignored, but may be more than just “noise” around an…
A porpoise chokes on a shark
Orr, R. T.
Journal of Mammalogy (1937)
On March 9, 1937, a harbor porpoise (Phocaena phocoena) that had been found dead the previous day on Rockaway Beach, San Mateo County, California, was brought to the Department of…
Status, ecology and life history of harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena), in Danish waters
Lockyer, Christina; Kinze, Carl
NAMMCOSP (2003)
A review of historical harbour porpoise catches in Danish waters, together with current distribution, are provided. Most information on distribution is derived from historical catch data with a total of…
An experimental study of postmortem ocular fluid and core temperature analysis in incidentally captured harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena)
Hood, C; Daoust, P-Y; Lien, J; Richter, C
NAMMCOSP (2003)
Determination of elapsed time since death in small cetaceans can be important to our understanding of the nature of their interactions with fishing operations. This pilot study was conducted to…