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…
Sightings of Burmeister’s porpoise, Phocoena spinipinnis, off southern South America
Goodall, R. Natalie P.; Würsig, Bernd; Würsig, Melany; Harris, Guillermo; Norris, Kenneth S.
Report of the International Whaling Commission (1995)
Although thought to be fairly common off the western and southeastern coasts of South America, Burmeister's porpoise (Phocoena spinipinnis) has seldom been seen alive by cetacean researchers. Published sightings are…
Population biology and incidental mortality of the vaquita, Phocoena sinus
Vidal, O.
Report of the International Whaling Commission (1995)
This paper reviews available information on the population biology and incidental mortality of the vaquita, Phocoena sinus. A re-examination of previous records and the collection of new records reveals that…
Vaquita bycatch in Mexico’s artisanal gillnet fisheries: Driving a small population to extinction
D'agrosa, Caterina; Lennert-Cody, Cleridy E.; Vidal, Omar
Conservation Biology (2000)
The world's most endangered marine cetacean, the vaquita (Phocoena sinus), continues to be caught in small-mesh gillnet fisheries throughout much of its range. We monitored fishing effort and incidental vaquita…
Harbour porpoise interactions with the 2001 selective salmon fisheries in southern British Columbia and license holder reported small cetacean by-catch
Hall, A.; Ellis, G.; Trites, A.W.
Selective Salmon Fisheries Science Program Report (2002)
We estimated the incidental mortality of harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) in selective salmon fisheries in southern British Columbia from reports received from federal fisheries observers (2001) and license holders (1997…
Post-mortem investigations on stranded dolphins and porpoises from Hong Kong waters
Parsons, E. C. M.; Jefferson, T. A.
Journal of Wildlife Diseases (2000)
Stranded cetaceans reported from the territorial waters of Hong Kong during the period May 1993 to March 1998 were examined to establish factors that may have contributed to their death.…
Catch of small cetaceans at Pucusana Port, central Peru, during 1987
Van Waerebeek, Koen; Reyes, Julio C.
Biological Conservation (1990)
The small cetacean catch by artisanal fishermen in Peru was the subject of a IUCN/UNEP project in 1985–1986. In a follow-up study during 1987 we monitored the port of Pucusana,…
The exploitation of small cetaceans in coastal Peru
Read, Andrew J.; Van Waerebeek, Koen; Reyes, Julio C.; McKinnon, Jeff S.; Lehman, Lynda C.
Biological Conservation (1988)
Several species of small cetaceans are captured by fishermen in Peruvian coastal waters and used for human consumption. A large directed fishery exists for one species, the dusky dolphin Lagenorhynchus…
Risk factors affecting the vaquita (Phocoena sinus)
Rojas-Bracho, Lorenzo; Taylor, Barbara L.
Marine Mammal Sci (1999)
Despite the vaquita being commonly cited as one of the most endangered marine mammals in the world, there is still disagreement over which factors put the species at greatest risk…
Saving the Vaquita: Immediate action, not more data
JARAMILLO-LEGORRETA, ARMANDO; ROJAS-BRACHO, LORENZO; BROWNELL, ROBERT L.; READ, ANDREW J.; REEVES, RANDALL R.; RALLS, KATHERINE; TAYLOR, BARBARA L.
Conservation Biology (2007)
The recent likely extinction of the baiji (Chinese river dolphin [Lipotes vexillifer]) (Turvey et al. 2007) makes the vaquita (Gulf of California porpoise [Phocoena sinus]) the most endangered cetacean. The…