Oceanography and Marine Biology: an Annual Review (2003)
The harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) is probably the most abundant small cetacean in the northeast Atlantic and as such is an important top predator. It is also one of the…
Description of a skeleton and supplementary notes on the skull of a rare porpoise Phocoena sinus Norris & McFarland 1958
Noble, B.A.; Fraser, F.C.
Journal of Natural History (1971)
The skull and incomplete skeleton of a specimen of Phocoena sinus from the Gulf of California are described and compared with specimens of P. phocoena and P. spinipinnis. The skeleton…
A global review of porpoise (Cetacea: Phocoenidae) mortality in gillnets
Jefferson, Thomas A.; Curry, Barbara E.
Biological Conservation (1994)
A global review of mortality of porpoises in gillnet fisheries indicates that individuals of all six species become entangled and die in gillnets. Harbor porpoises Phocoena phocoena are taken throughout…
Measuring the economic value of increased precision in scientific estimates of marine mammal abundance and bycatch: Harbor porpoise Phocoena phocoena in the northeast U.S. gill-net fishery
Bisack, Kathryn D.; Magnusson, Gisele
North American Journal of Fisheries Management (2014)
Marine mammal stock assessments provide information that is valuable to public sector management and the private fishing sector; however, data are costly to collect. The precautionary approach, which is widely…
Estimates of cetacean by-catch in the turbot fishery on the Turkish Western Black Sea Coast in 2007 and 2008
Tonay, Arda M.
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom (2016)
This is the first study estimating cetacean by-catch in the Turkish western Black Sea turbot fishery. One turbot fishing boat was observed during two fishing seasons, from April through July…
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 of harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) in three Alaskan regions, corrected for observer errors due to perception bias and species misidentification, and corrected for animals submerged from view
Hobbs, Roderick C.; Waite, Janice M.
Fishery Bulletin (2010)
Estimating the abundance of cetaceans from aerial survey data requires careful attention to survey design and analysis. Once an aerial observer perceives a marine mammal or group of marine mammals,…
A visual and acoustic survey for harbour porpoises off North-West Africa: Further evidence of a discrete population
Boisseau, O.; Matthews, J.; Gillespie, D.; Lacey, C.; Moscrop, A.; El Ouamari, N.
African Journal of Marine Science (2007)
The distribution of harbour porpoises Phocoena phocoena in southern Europe and along the Atlantic African coast is poorly understood, with tentative assessments suggesting a discrete West African population with a…
Gas bubble disease in harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) stranded in British Columbia
Raverty, Stephen A.; Spavin, Lisa; Cottrell, Paul; Ford, John; Hall, Anna; Gaydos, Joe; Haulena, Martin; Ivančić, Marina
Conference of the International Association for Aquatic Animal Medicine (2010)
Harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) are among the most abundant small cetaceans in the northeastern Pacific and there is a distinct bimodal seasonal stranding trend. Increased numbers of animals present in…
Severe progressive meningoencephalitis due to Cryptococcus sp. in a live-stranded harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) undergoing rehabilitation
Haulena, M.; Himsworth, C.; Anderson, C.; Akhurst, L.; Ivančić, M.; Malpas, D.A.; Pollock, J.S.; Raverty, S.
Conference of the International Association for Aquatic Animal Medicine (2012)
Cryptococcus gatti is an important infectious disease in the northeastern Pacific. The condition has been associated with significant mortality in harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena), Dall’s porpoise (Phocoenoides dalli) and Pacific…