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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…

  • Phocoena phocoena
  • bycatch
  • comparison
  • conservation
  • dolphin
  • economics
  • entanglement
  • whale

Harbor porpoise mortality in the Monterey Bay halibut gillnet fishery, 1989

Jefferson, T. A.; Curry, B. E.; Black, N. A.
Report of the International Whaling Commission (1994)

Harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) have been killed in gillnets set for halibut in central California since at least 1969. In the Monterey Bay area (Pigeon Pt. to Pt. Sur), past…

  • Phocoena phocoena
  • bycatch
  • conservation
  • entanglement
  • mortality

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…

  • Phocoena spinipinnis
  • bottlenose dolphin
  • bycatch
  • capture
  • dolphin
  • entanglement

Observations of the harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) on the Polish Baltic Coast

Skora, K. E.; Pawliczka, I.; Klinowska, M.
Aquatic Mammals (1988)

Information on the harbour porpoise in Polish waters is reviewed and a corrected and updated list of catches, strandings and sightings given. The number of records per year has changed…

  • Phocoena phocoena
  • bycatch
  • capture
  • entanglement
  • history
  • population trends
  • stranding

A typical case history of the net-caught harbour porpoise, Phocoena phocoena, from Danish waters

Andersen, S.H.
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…

  • Phocoena phocoena
  • bycatch
  • disease
  • distribution
  • entanglement

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