Scientific Committee Meeting Documents (1999)
Limited monitoring of 30 fishing ports on the central and northern Peruvian coast, from 03º29’S to 14º10’S, in the period 1995-99, yielded evidence of small cetacean exploitation in 25 ports…
Vaquita Phocoena sinus Norris and McFarland, 1958
Vidal, O.; Brownell, R. L. Jr.; Findley, L. T.
Handbook of Marine Mammals (1999)
Abstract currently unavailable
Mitigation of harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) by-catch in the gillnet fishery in the lower Bay of Fundy
Trippel, Edward A.; Strong, Michael B.; Terhune, John M.; Conway, Jeremy D.
Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences (1999)
Demersal gill nets equipped with acoustic alarms reduced harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) by-catch rates by 77% over those without alarms in the Swallowtail area of the lower Bay of Fundy…
Bycatches of harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena L.) in Danish set-net fisheries
Vinther, M.
Journal of Cetacean Research and Management (1999)
Data on bycatch of harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena L.) in the commercial Danish set-net fisheries were sampled from 5,591km nets in the period 1992 to 1998 using independent observers. A…
Target detection by an echolocating harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena)
Kastelein, R. A.; Au, W. W. L.; Rippe, H. T.; Schooneman, N. M.
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (1999)
Two echolocation experiments are described. They were conducted on the same harbor porpoise housed in a sea pen, one year apart at Neeltje Jans, The Netherlands. The aims were to…
Burmeister’s porpoise Phocoena spinipinnis Burmeister, 1865
Brownell, R. L. Jr.; Clapham, P. J.
Handbook of Marine Mammals (1999)
Abstract currently unavailable
Documenting the bycatch of harbor porpoises, Phocoena phocoena, in coastal gillnet fisheries from stranded carcasses
Cox, T. M.; Read, A. J.; Barco, S.; Evans, J.; Gannon, D. P.; Koopman, H. N.; McLellan, W. A.; Murray, K.; Nicolas, J.; Pabst, D. A.; Potter, C. W.; Swingle, W. M.; Thayer, V. G.; Touhey, K. M.; Westgate, A. J.
Fishery Bulletin (1998)
We examined 107 harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) carcasses recovered from beaches in Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina between 1994 and 1996 for evidence of entanglement in fishing gear. Stranded porpoises…
Acoustic alarms reduce porpoise mortality
Kraus, Scott D.; Read, Andrew J.; Solow, Andrew; Baldwin, Ken; Spradlin, Trevor; Anderson, Eric; Williamson, John
Nature (1997)
The most serious danger to dolphins and porpoises around the world is the threat from various forms of gill-net fishing. One potential way to reduce the number of deaths of…
Composition of the incidental kill of cetaceans in two California gillnet fisheries: 1990-1995
Chivers, S. J.; Robertson, K. M.; Henshaw, M. D.
Report of the International Whaling Commission (1997)
In July 1990, an observer program was established to collect data on the bycatch of the drift and set gillnet fisheries operating off the coast of California. These data are…
A note on the harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) in the coastal waters of Spain
Lens, S.
Report of the International Whaling Commission (1997)
Information on the harbour porpoise in Spanish waters was collected and reviewed, giving an updated list of observations (strandings, incidental catches and sightings) for the period 1978-94 . The species…