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Porpoise Research Library

Searching in P. phocoena. 722 entries found.
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A typical case history of the net-caught harbour porpoise, Phocoena phocoena, from Danish waters

Andersen, S.H.
Aquatic Mammals (1974)

The harbour porpoise and all other cetaceans are totally protected in Danish waters, but not in the waters around Greenland and the Faroe Islands. This means that it is forbidden…

  • bycatch
  • disease
  • distribution
  • entanglement

Preliminary study of movements of harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) in the Bay of Fundy using radiotelemetry

Gaskin, D. E.; Smith, G. J. D.; Watson, A. P.
Canadian Journal of Zoology (1975)

Six harbor porpoises captured in herring weirs between September 1973 and September 1974 on the southern coast of New Brunswick were tagged and released. The three smallest animals were given…

  • behaviour
  • feeding
  • tagging

Polychlorinated hydrocarbons and heavy metals in harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) and white-beaked dolphin (Lagenorhynchus albirostris) from Danish waters

Andersen, S. H.; Rebsdorff, A.
Aquatic Mammals (1976)

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the level of persistent chlorinated hydrocarbons and heavy metals in different tissues of four harbour porpoises caught at Danish coasts and…

  • bioaccumulation
  • comparison
  • dolphin
  • pollutants

Possible predator-related adaption of sound production and hearing in the harbour porpoise

Andersen, S. H.; Amundin, M.
Aquatic Mammals (1976)

Abstract currently unavailable

  • adaptation
  • echolocation
  • hearing
  • killer whale

Harbour porpoise Phocoena phocoena (L.) in the western approaches to the Bay of Fundy 1969-75

Gaskin, D. E.
Report of the International Whaling Commission (1977)

(...) Studies on the biology and ecology of the species [harbour porpoise] by the University of Guelph, largely sponsored by the National Research Council of Canada, were begun in the…

  • abundance
  • behaviour
  • distribution
  • reproduction

A harbour porpoise, Phocoena phocoena (Linnaeus, 1758), from the Mackenzie River delta, Northwest Territories, Canada (Notes on Cetacea, Delphinoidea VIII)

Van Bree, P. J. H.; Sergeant, D. E.; Hoek, W.
Beaufortia (1977)

A Harbour Porpoise, Phocoena phocoena, taken from near Shallow Bay, Mackenzie River Delta, Northwest Territories (68°48’ N 136°35’ W) in July 1973 represents a range extension 800 km eastwards from…

  • behaviour
  • comparison
  • distribution
  • morphology
  • skeleton

Notes on the small cetaceans off the coasts of France

Duguy, R.
Report of the International Whaling Commission (1977)

(...) Strandings of cetaceans on the coasts of France have been the object of systematic study, published in the form of annual reports, only since 1971. From that date until…

  • bottlenose dolphin
  • capture
  • dolphin
  • killer whale
  • stranding
  • whale

Catch of belugas, narwhals and harbour porpoises in Greenland, 1954-75, by year, month and region

Kapel, F. O.
Report of the International Whaling Commission (1977)

Preliminary notes on the occurrence and exploitation of smaller Cetacea in Greenland were presented in a previous paper (Kapel, 1975). In the present paper a more detailed presentation of the…

  • bycatch
  • capture
  • whale

Contribution to the knowledge of morphological anomalies in cetacean teeth

Arvy, L.
Investigations on Cetacea (1977)

Abstract currently unavailable

  • dolphin
  • morphology
  • skeleton
  • whale

Experiences with harbour porpoises, Phocoena phocoena, in captivity: Mortality, autopsy findings and influence of the captive environment

Anderson, S. H.
Aquatic Mammals (1978)

This paper gives a survey of the fate of 67 harbour porpoises collected alive from Danish waters and kept in captivity for bioacoustical and physiological investigations. Even if the harbour…

  • comparison
  • disease
  • life history
  • mortality

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