The Journal of Wildlife Management (2024)
Harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) are the only cetaceans routinely sighted in Hood Canal, a narrow fjord that comprises the western edge of Puget Sound, Washington, USA. Harbor porpoises are sensitive…
Finless porpoise bycatch and stranding along the Shandong Peninsula, China, based on public reports from 2000 to 2018
Zuo, Tao; Li, Yongtao; Cheng, Zhaolong; Wang, Jun; Sun, Jianqiang; Yuan, Wei; Niu, Mingxiang
Animals (2023)
The Shandong Peninsula is located on the western coast of the Pacific and is adjacent to the Bohai Sea (BS) and the Yellow Sea (YS) to the east. The East…
Distribution and speed of recreational boats in Danish waters based on coastal observations and satellite images: Predicting where boats may affect harbour porpoises
Hao, Xiuqing; Nabe-Nielsen, Jacob
Ocean & Coastal Management (2023)
Danish coastal waters are a hotspot for recreational boating and harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena), but as there is little data on the boats’ speeds and distributions, it is difficult to…
A drone study of sociality in the finless porpoise Neophocaena asiaeorientalis in the Ariake Sound, Japan
Morimura, Naruki; Itahara, Akihiro; Brooks, James; Mori, Yusuke; Piao, Yige; Hashimoto, Hiroki; Mizumoto, Itsuki
Drones (2023)
The social structure of animal populations is a fundamental component of their biology, influencing gene flow, habitat use, competition and co-operation around resources, and communication. However, ecological and social relationships…
Hardly seen, often heard: Acoustic presence of harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) in one of the most urbanised estuaries in the world
Rekdahl, Melinda L.; Trabue, Sarah G.; King-Nolan, Carissa D.; Strindberg, Samantha; Rosenbaum, Howard C.
Frontiers in Marine Science (2023)
The New York-New Jersey (NY-NJ) Harbour Estuary and surrounding waters support the largest port along the U.S. East Coast, commercial and recreational fishing, and a burgeoning offshore wind energy industry.…
Distribution and abundance of cetaceans in Icelandic waters over 30 years of aerial surveys
Pike, Daniel; Gunnlaugsson, Thorvaldur; Sigurjonsson, Johann; Vikingsson, Gisli
NAMMCO Scientific Publications (2020)
Beginning in 1986, 7 aerial surveys covering the coastal waters of Iceland have been conducted up to 2016. In addition, several partial surveys covering portions of the same area and…
Habitat succession of the Yangtze finless porpoise in Poyang Lake under the changing hydrodynamic and feeding environment
Han, Yong; Sun, Zhiyu; Fang, Hongwei; Bai, Sen; Huang, Lei; He, Guojian
Ecological Modelling (2020)
Poyang Lake, located in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, is the largest freshwater lake in China and the most important habitat for the Yangtze finless porpoise.…
Modelling fine-scale distribution and relative abundance of harbour porpoises in the Southern Bight of the North Sea using platform-of-opportunity data
Bouveroux, Thibaut; Waggitt, James J.; Belhadjer, Anissa; Cazenave, Pierre W.; Evans, Peter G.H.; Kiszka, Jeremy J.
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom (2020)
Over the last 25 years, the harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) has made a significant return to the Southern Bight of the North Sea and the English Channel due to a…
First record of Burmeister’s porpoise (Phocoena spinipinnis) in the Falkland Islands (Malvinas)
Weir, Caroline R.; Rutherford, Susan
Marine Biodiversity Records (2019)
The Burmeister’s porpoise Phocoena spinipinnis is a small, poorly-studied, and Near Threatened cetacean species, with a limited geographic range comprising the Pacific and Atlantic coastal temperate waters of five South…
Abundance and seasonality of Dall’s porpoise (Phocoenoides dalli) in southeast Alaska
Jefferson, T. A.; Dahlheim, M. E.; Zerbini, A. N.; Waite, J. M.; Kennedy, A. S.
NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-AFSC-385 (2019)
Little is known about Dall’s porpoise (Phocoenoides dalli) population biology in Southeast Alaska. Here we present the first abundance estimates for Dall’s porpoise in the waters of Southeast Alaska. We…