Journal of Cetacean Research and Management (2004)
Harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) are small coastal cetaceans vulnerable to mortality in fishing operations. Not all interactions are fatal, however, and each year many porpoises swim into and are subsequently…
(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.
Journal of Cetacean Research and Management (2004)
The bycatch of harbour porpoise in the Danish North Sea bottom-set gillnet fisheries between 1987-2001 is estimated using two methods involving extrapolation of observer data. When observed entanglements are extrapolated…
Canadian Technical Report of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences (2004)
The most serious threat to the status of harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) is incidental mortalities caused by entanglement in fishing gear. As part of an ongoing study to evaluate the…
Marine Ecology Progress Series (2004)
The echolocation behavior of harbor porpoises Phocoena phocoena around gillnets was monitored to test their response to chemically (BaSO4) enhanced gill nets, designed to be more acoustically reflective than commercial…
NAMMCOSP (2003)
A review of historical harbour porpoise catches in Danish waters, together with current distribution, are provided. Most information on distribution is derived from historical catch data with a total of…
NAMMCOSP (2003)
Determination of elapsed time since death in small cetaceans can be important to our understanding of the nature of their interactions with fishing operations. This pilot study was conducted to…
NAMMCOSP (2003)
The status of harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) populations in the North Atlantic has raised numerous concerns. Although a number of factors that may be adversely affecting harbour porpoise populations have…
NAMMCOSP (2003)
Sixty-two verified reports obtained in the years 1990-1999 on the bycatch, strandings and sightings of harbour porpoises in the Polish Baltic were analysed in this study. In relative terms the…
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…