Species at Risk Act Management Plan Series (2009)
Harbour Porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) are a small marine mammal reaching a length of about 2.2 m and weight of about 75 kg when fully grown, making them the smallest cetacean…
Photo-identification of the vaquita (Phocoena sinus): The world’s most endangered cetacean
Jefferson, T. A.; Olson, P. A.; Kieckhefer, T. R.; Rojas-Bracho, L.
Lat. Am. J. Aquat. Mamm. (2009)
(...) In the autumn of 2008, a large-scale international effort to study the vaquita and develop methods to monitor its population status was conducted. As part of this effort, we…
A new species of Haborophocoena , an early Pliocene phocoenid cetacean from Hokkaido, Japan
Ichishima, Hiroto; Kimura, Masaichi
Marine Mammal Science (2009)
A new species of phocoenid cetacean Haborophocoena, collected from the Early Pliocene Embetsu Formation, in the close vicinity to the site where the holotype of the type species of the…
Diurnal and tidal variations in habitat use of the harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) in southwest Britain
Goodwin, Lissa
Aquatic Mammals (2008)
With the United Kingdom required to designate Special Areas of Conservation (SACs) under Natura 2000 by 2012, it is important to understand site-specific activity and habitat use in order to…
Characterisation of harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) habitat in German waters
Gilles, A.
Doctoral Thesis - Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (2008)
The harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) is an important top predator and as such an indicator species for its environment. Before the beginning of the 21st century, little data existed on…
Effect of two levels of masking noise on the hearing threshold of a harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) for a 4.0 kHz signal
Kastelein, Ronald A.; Wensveen, Paul J.
Aquatic Mammals (2008)
The 50% detection hearing thresholds of a harbor porpoise for a 4.0 kHz narrow-band FM signal, presented at the background noise level in a pool and with two masking noise…
Harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) static acoustic monitoring: Laboratory detection thresholds of T-PODs are reflected in field sensitivity
Kyhn, Line A.; Tougaard, Jakob; Teilmann, Jonas; Wahlberg, Magnus; Jørgensen, Poul B.; Bech, Nikolaj I.
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom (2008)
The T-POD (Timing POrpoise Detector) is a self-contained acoustic data logger used for detecting and monitoring the presence of echolocation clicks of small cetaceans. It has become a standard tool…
Small cetacean captures and CPUE estimates in artisanal fisheries operating from a port in northern Peru, 2005-2007
Alfaro-Shigueto, Joanna; Mangel, Jeffrey C.; Van Waerebeek, Koen
Scientific Committee Meeting Documents (2008)
This work provides the first direct, at-sea monitoring of small cetacean interactions with Peruvian artisanal drift gillnet and longline vessels. A total of 253 small cetaceans were observed captured during…
Potential limits to anthropogenic mortality of small cetaceans in coastal waters of British Columbia
Williams, Rob; Hall, Anna; Winship, Arliss
Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. (2008)
Small cetaceans are by-caught in salmon gillnet fisheries in British Columbia (BC) waters. In Canada, there is currently no generic calculation to identify when management action is necessary to reduce…
Brucella ceti associated pathology in the testicle of a harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena)
Dagleish, M. P.; Barley, J.; Finlayson, J.; Reid, R. J.; Foster, G.
Journal of Comparative Pathology (2008)
Brucellosis is reported increasingly in marine mammals and the marine species of Brucella are capable of causing community acquired zoonotic infections in humans as well as abortion in cattle as…