Investigations on Cetacea (1986)
(...) This document attempts to gather together as much information as is available on the extent of current killings of small cetaceans throughout the world, and also to highlight some…
Current understanding of the status of small cetacean populations in the Black Sea
Smith, T. D.
FAO Fisheries Series (1982)
A fishery using guns and nets for the common dolphin, Delphinus delphis, Azov dolphin, Phocoena phocoena, and bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus, in the Black and Azov Seas has been pursued…
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…
Change in occurrence of the harbour porpoise, Phocoena phocoena, in Danish waters as illustrated by catch statistics from 1834 to 1970
Andersen, S. H.
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…
Genetic variability and differentiation in the toothed whales
Shimura, E.; Numachi, K.-I.
Scientific Reports of the Whales Research Institute (1987)
Genetic variability and differentiation of three families containing 12 species of toothed whales mainly from the sea around Japan have been examined by starch-gel electrophoresis at 19 genetic loci encoding…
Harbor porpoises of San Francisco Bay
Stern, J.; Keener, W.; Szczepaniak, I.; Webber, M.
Beyond the Golden Gate Research Symposium (2011)
Abstract currently unavailable
Whales, dolphins, and porpoises of the eastern North Pacific and adjacent Arctic waters: A guide to their identification
Leatherwood, S.; Reeves, R. R.; Perrin, W. F.; Evans, W. E.
NOAA Technical Report NMFS Circular 444 (1982)
This field guide is designed to permit observers to identify the cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and porpoises) they see in the waters of the eastern North Pacific, including the Gulf of…
Review of small cetaceans: Distribution, behaviour, migration and threats
Culik, Boris
(2004)
This report summarises the available knowledge on odontocete (toothed whale) distribution, behaviour, migration and threats and was compiled for the Bonn Secretariat of CMS.
Potential rates of increase of a harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) population subjected to incidental mortality in commercial fisheries
Woodley, Thomas H.; Read, Andrew J.
Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences (1991)
We estimated the potential intrinsic rate of increase (r) of the harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) population in the Bay of Fundy and Gulf of Maine using empirical data on reproductive…
Beyond parasitism: Hepatic lesions in stranded harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) without trematode (Campula oblonga) infections
Hiemstra, S.; Harkema, L.; Wiersma, L. C. M.; Keesler, R. I.
Veterinary Pathology (2014)
The liver can be an indicator of the health of an individual or of a group, which can be especially important to identify agents that can cause disease in multiple…