Cetacean strandings have typically been classified into two types: 1) single strandings (including a mother/offspring pair); and 2) mass strandings. Singly stranded cetaceans have been reported world-wide wherever populations of…
Dolphins of several species are killed incidentally in driftnet fisheries on the high seas in the North Pacific. Information on stock identity, necessary for assessment and management of the dolphin…
Data are reported on marine mammal mortality collected from California's gillnet fisheries for California halibut and Pacific angel shark (set net) and swordfish and pelagic sharks (driftnet) during the first…
(...) Several researchers have obtained accurate speed data on unconfined cetaceans using a variety of techniques. Hui (1989) analyzed video tapes of Delphinus delphis and Stenella attenuata filmed from a…
The Japanese squid driftnet fishery began in 1978 in the northwestern Pacific, targeting the flying squid, Ommastrephes bartrami, and was effectively closed in 1992. In response to the rapid growth…
Dall's porpoises, Phocoenoides dalli, were often incidentally caught in the Japanese salmon gillnet fishery in the North Pacific. In order to investigate the reasons for entanglement, their auditory characteristics and…
The structure of the retina, the distribution of ganglion cells, and the extent of the tapetum lucidum were studied in Dall's porpoise (Phocoenoides dalli) with the aim of understanding the…
Dall's porpoise in the western North Pacific Ocean suffered incidental mortality from the gillnets of the Japanese high seas salmon fishery until 1987 and mortality from the high seas squid…
Portions of the cytochrome b gene and control region of the mitochondrial DNA molecule were sequenced to investigate systematic relationships among the six extant species of true porpoises, (Cetacea: Phocoenidae).…
Two density indices of Dall's porpoise abundance were estimated for the western North Pacific from 1979 to 1989. One index is the density of animals (number of animals per square…