Marine Pollution Bulletin (2019)
The vaquita (Phocoena sinus) is the world's smallest cetacean and most endangered marine mammal. The species is under threat from illegal fishing activities that take place in the upper Gulf…
Lessons for sustainable development: Marine mammal conservation policies and its social and economic effects
Manjarrez-Bringas, Nahieli; Aragón-Noriega, Eugenio; Beltrán-Morales, Luis; Cordoba-Matson, Michael; Ortega-Rubio, Alfredo
Sustainability (2018)
The objective of this research is to assess the main social and economic effects on local fishermen in El Golfo de Santa Clara, as a result of the severe fishing…
Eighth Meeting of the Comité Internacional para la Recuperación de la Vaquita
CIRVA
(2017)
The Dire Status of the Vaquita Has Worsened Analysis of the 2016 Acoustic Monitoring Program data has shown that almost half of the remaining vaquita population was lost between 2015…
Endangered species, ecosystem integrity, and human livelihoods
Aburto-Oropeza, Octavio; López-Sagástegui, Catalina; Moreno-Báez, Marcia; Mascareñas-Osorio, Ismael; Jiménez-Esquivel, Victoria; Johnson, Andrew Frederick; Erisman, Brad
Conservation Letters (2016)
If efforts to conserve endangered species lack long-term visions and neglect the human dimensions, conservation success will be questionable. Exclusion of stakeholders in decisions can lead to mistrust and polarization…
Harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) conservation management: A dimensional approach
Jenkins, Rhian E.; Brown, Raymond D.H.; Phillips, Michael R.
Marine Policy (2009)
Harbour porpoises Phocoena phocoena are protected under the Habitats and Species Directive (92/43/EEC) and listed as a priority species in the City and County of Swansea's Biodiversity Action Plan (BAP).…
Seventh Meeting of the Comité Internacional para la Recuperación de la Vaquita
CIRVA
(2016)
EXTINCTION IS IMMINENT CIRVA reviewed the 2015 population survey results, which showed that only about 60 vaquitas remained at the beginning of the emergency 2-year partial gillnet ban. CIRVA also…
Interactions between cetaceans and gillnet and trap fisheries in the Northwest Atlantic
Read, A. J.
Report of the International Whaling Commission (1994)
Gillnet and trap fisheries of the Northwest Atlantic and their potential for cetacean entanglement are reviewed. Ten major categories of passive fisheries are identified, five of which are known to…
Cetaceans and gillnet fisheries in Mexico, Central America and the wider Caribbean: A preliminary review
Vidal, O.; Van Waerebeek, K.; Findley, L. T.
Report of the International Whaling Commission (1994)
This paper reviews published and unpublished information on the mortality of cetaceans in gillnets in Mexico, Central America and the wider Caribbean. Data on this incidental mortality are provided from…
A review of the Japanese squid driftnet fishery with notes on the cetacean bycatch
Yatsu, A.; Hiramatsu, K.; Hayase, S.
Report of the International Whaling Commission (1994)
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…
Gillnet fisheries and cetaceans in the southeast Pacific
Reyes, J. C.; Oporto, J. A.
Report of the International Whaling Commission (1994)
A general description of gillnet fisheries in the Southeast Pacific area (comprising the waters of Ecuador, Peru and Chile) is presented and their potential threat to cetaceans is discussed. Information…