Journal of Cetacean Research and Management (2000)
In 1994, the United States National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) implemented a series of time/area closures for the Gulf of Maine sink gillnet fishery to reduce the bycatch of harbour…
Vaquita bycatch in Mexico’s artisanal gillnet fisheries: Driving a small population to extinction
D'agrosa, Caterina; Lennert-Cody, Cleridy E.; Vidal, Omar
Conservation Biology (2000)
The world's most endangered marine cetacean, the vaquita (Phocoena sinus), continues to be caught in small-mesh gillnet fisheries throughout much of its range. We monitored fishing effort and incidental vaquita…
The effects of acoustic alarms on the behavior of harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) in a floating pen
Kastelein, R. A.; Rippe, H. T.; Vaughan, N.; Schooneman, N. M.; Verboom, W. C.; De Haan, D.
Marine Mammal Sci (2000)
In an attempt to test the effectiveness of sounds in deterring harbor porpoises from nets and reducing porpoise bycatch in gill net fisheries, two harbor porpoises, kept in a large…
Yangtze river population of Finless Porpoises (Neophocaena phocaenoides)
Reeves, Randall R.; Jefferson, Thomas A.; Kasuya, Toshio; Smith, Brian D.; Wang, Ding; Wang, Peilie; Wells, Randall S.; Würsig, Bernd; Zhou, Kaiya
Biology and Conservation of Freshwater Cetaceans in Asia (2000)
The population of finless porpoises (Neophocaena phocaenoides) that inhabits China’s Yangtze River is unique. All other known populations of the species are distributed principally in marine waters. This population is…
Ingestion of plastic and unusual prey by a juvenile harbour porpoise
Baird, Robin W.; Hooker, Sascha K.
Marine Pollution Bulletin (2000)
(...) On 11 September 1997, a harbour porpoise was found dead on a beach near Pictou, Nova Scotia, Canada (45° 41′N, 62° 42′W), bordering Northumberland Strait in the Gulf of…
Abundance and distribution of finless porpoises in the Nanjing-Hukou section of the Lower Yangtze River
Zhou, Kaiya; Yang, Guang; Gao, Anli; Sun, Jiang; Xu, Xinrong
Biology and Conservation of Freshwater Cetaceans in Asia (2000)
Survey results from 1989 to 1992 were interpreted as indicating that about 700 finless porpoises (Neophocaena phocaenoides) inhabited the section of the lower Yangtze River between Nanjing and Hukou. The…
Pulmonary pathology of harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) stranded in England and Wales between 1990 and 1996
Jepson, P. D.; Kuiken, T.; Bennett, P. M.; Baker, J. R.; Simpson, V. R.; Kennedy, S.
Veterinary Record (2000)
The pathological changes observed in the lungs of 197 freshly dead to moderately decomposed harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) stranded in England and Wales between October 1990 and December 1996 were…
Polydactyly and other features of the manus of the vaquita, Phocoena sinus
Ortega-Ortiz, Joel G.; Villa-Ramirez, Bernardo; Gersenowies, Jorge R.
Marine Mammal Sci (2000)
The vaquita (Phocoena sinus) manus was examined in 16 individuals. The carpus has a proximal row of three bones and a cartilaginous accessory carpal element distocaudal to the ulna. Five…
Phylogeography, intraspecific structure and sex-biased dispersal of Dall’s porpoise, Phocoenoides dalli , revealed by mitochondrial and microsatellite DNA analyses
Escorza-Treviño, S.; Dizon, A. E.
Molecular Ecology (2000)
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) control-region sequences and microsatellite loci length polymorphisms were used to estimate phylogeographical patterns (historical patterns underlying contemporary distribution), intraspecific population structure and gender-biased dispersal of Phocoenoides dalli…
A preliminary study on the variability of the mitochondrial DNA control region in populations of finless porpoises (Neophocaena phocaenoides) in Chinese waters
Yang, Guang; Zhou, Kaiya
Biology and Conservation of Freshwater Cetaceans in Asia (2000)
The mitochondrial DNA control region of 12 finless porpoises (Neophocaena phocaenoides) from the Yangtze River, Yellow Sea, and South China Sea, was amplified. Two portions, 317 and 245 base pairs,…