Biological Conservation (1994)
A global review of mortality of porpoises in gillnet fisheries indicates that individuals of all six species become entangled and die in gillnets. Harbor porpoises Phocoena phocoena are taken throughout…
A review of cetacean and pinniped mortality in coastal fisheries along the west coast of the USA and Canada and the east coast of the Russian Federation
Barlow, J.; Baird, R. W.; Heyning, J. E.; Wynne, K.; Manford, A. M. II; Lowry, L. F.; Hanan, D.; Sease, J.; Burkanov, V. N.
Report of the International Whaling Commission (1994)
Many passive net fisheries exist along the Pacific coastlines of the USA (California, Oregon, Washington and Alaska), Canada (British Columbia) and the Russian Federation. Some incidental marine mammal mortality occurs…
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…
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…
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…