FAO Fisheries Series (1982)
During 24 seasons (November, December and January) from 1834 to 1892, 27 992 harbour porpoises, Phocoena phocoena, were taken in the Strait of Lille Baelt, Denmark with a mean annual…
Status of the cochito, Phocoena sinus, in the Gulf of California
Brownell, R. L. Jr.
FAO Fisheries Series (1982)
The cochito (Phocoena sinus), the smallest member of its genus, is known from 21 confirmed records from the upper Gulf of California and is probably found only in that area.…
Status of Burmeister’s porpoise, Phocoena spinipinnis, in southern South American waters
Brownell, R. L. Jr.; Praderi, R.
FAO Fisheries Series (1982)
This paper reviews current knowledge of Burmeister's porpoise (Phocoena spinipinnis), probably the most abundant coastal small cetacean in southern South American waters and probably existing in two isolated Atlantic and…
White Dall’s porpoise sighted in the north Pacific
Joyce, Gerald G.; Rosapepe, John V.; Ogasawara, Junroku
Fishery Bulletin (1982)
(...) Several studies on the population and distribution of marine mammals were conducted between 1978 and 1981 in the North Pacific Ocean under a United States-Japan cooperative agreement of the…
DDT residues in blubber of harbour porpoise Phocoena phocoena (L.), from eastern Canadian waters during the five-year period 1969-1973
Gaskin, D. E.; Holdrinet, M.; Frank, R.
FAO Fisheries Series (1982)
Samples of blubber from 60 male and 55 female harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) collected from 1969 to 1973, all but 11 from the east and west coast approaches to the…
Body surface area of juvenile harbour porpoise, Phocoena phocoena
Andersen, S. H.
Aquatic Mammals (1981)
Informations on the body surface area in dolphins are rare in literature (SLIJPER, 1958; KERMACK, 1948; PARRY, 1949; RIDGWAY, 1972). With the increasing interest in physiology of marine mammals this…
Food habits of smaller marine mammals from northern California
Jones, R. E.
Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (1981)
General food habits are discussed for 11 species of small marine mammals beach-east in northern California. The collection method allowed tabulation only of the kinds, numbers, and percentages of fish,…
Regression of the optic system in the Changjiang (Yangtze) finless porpoise (Neophoceana asiaeorientalis) as a result of lack of light
Chen, P.; Shao, Z.; Pilleri, G.
Investigations on Cetacea (1980)
(...) The research shows that the finless porpoise of the Changjiang (Yangtze river) presents an atrophy ofthe entire optic system - eye and eye muscle nerves, optic nerve, optic pathways.…
Exploitation of small cetaceans off southern South America
Goodall, R. N. P.; Cameron, I. S.
Report of the International Whaling Commission (1980)
The legal position regarding cetaceans in Argentina and Chile is reviewed. Known live captures to date have involved one species, Cephalorhynchus commersonii. Incidental take is discussed for both countries. Dolphins…
Neophocaena phocaenoides and Neophocaena asiaeorientalis: Taxonomical differences
Pilleri, G.; Chen, P.
Investigations on Cetacea (1980)
The Chinese finless porpoise of the Changjiang river, Neophocaena asiaeorientalis (PILLERI and GIHR, 1972) presents a taxonomic entity which differs from N. phocaenoides (G. CUVIER, 1829) of south and south-west…