Master's Thesis - University of Rhode Island (1996)
Hundreds of harbor porpoise die each year as bycatch in the Gulf of Maine's sink gillnet fishery. In recent years, concern has arisen whether the Gulf of Maine population of…
Investigations on cetacean sonar XI: Intrinsic comparison of the wave shapes of some members of the Phocoenidae family
Kamminga, C.; Cohen Stuart, A.; Silber, G. K.
Aquatic Mammals (1996)
A comparison of the acoustic waveforms of three different species, Phocoena phocoena, Phocoena sinus and Neophocaena phocaenoides of the sub-family Phocoeninae is made with the species Phocoenoides dalli of the…
Epidemiology of poxvirus in small cetaceans from the eastern South Pacific
Van Bressem, Marie-Françoise; Van Waerebeek, Koen
Marine Mammal Sci (1996)
The prevalence of ‘tattoo’ skin lesions, characteristic of poxvirus infection, was examined in 339 small cetaceans captured in gillnet fisheries off coastal Peru: 196 Lagenorhynchus obscurus (34.7%, CI 29.0%–41.8%), 54…
Seasonal distribution of harbour porpoises in US Atlantic waters
Northridge, S.
Report of the International Whaling Commission (1996)
The seasonal distribution of harbour porpoises in US Atlantic waters is explored by examining aerial sightings made by the CeTAP survey between 1978 and 1988. Sightings rates were very low…
Harbor porpoise bycatch estimates in the US New England multispecies sink gillnet fishery: 1994 and 1995
Bisack, K. D.
Report of the International Whaling Commission (1997)
This report provides harbor porpoise bycatch estimates for 1994 and 1995. The analysis required adjusting for changes in data collection methods that went into effect in June 1994, in which…
Target discrimination by an echolocating finless porpoise, Neophocaena phocaenoides
Nakahara, Fumio; Takemura, Akira; Koido, Takashi; Hiruda, Hisoka
Marine Mammal Sci (1997)
The ability of a finless porpoise (Neophocaena phocaenoides) to discriminate the material and size of a target by echolocation was investigated. The porpoise was required to choose a standard target…
A preliminary evaluation of incidental mortality of small cetaceans in coastal fisheries in British Columbia, Canada
STACEY, PAM J.; DUFFUS, DAVID A.; BAIRD, ROBIN W.
Marine Mammal Sci (1997)
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Megatestes: Anatomical evidence for sperm competition in the harbor porpoise
Fontaine, P. M.; Barrette, C.
Mammalia (1997)
We collected testes from 62 male harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) incidentally caught in gillnets of commercial fisheries in the Gulf of St-Lawrence, in June-July- August. In adults (≥4 years), both…
Skin surface temperature changes in a harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) while on land
Kastelein, R. A.; Koene, P.; Nieuwstraten, S. H.; Labberté, S.
The Biology of the Harbour Porpoise (1997)
Surface temperatures were taken once every minute for 10 minutes in 10 places on the skin of a juvenile harbour porpoise with a radiation thermometer, immediately after the animal had…
Contamination by butyltin compounds in harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) from the Black Sea
Madhusree, Bathini; Tanabe, Shinsuke; Öztürk, Ayaka Amaha; Tatsukawa, Ryo; Miyazaki, Nobuyuki; Özdamar, Emin; Aral, Orhan; Samsun, Osman; Öztürk, Bayram
Fresenius' Journal of Analytical Chemistry (1997)
Concentrations of butyltin compounds (BTs) were determined in harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) collected from the Turkish coastal waters of the Black Sea. Total butyltin compounds (∑ BTs) in the liver…