Wageningen Marine Research Reports (2019)
Harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) are regularly monitored to assess how they are impacted by the construction and operation of offshore wind farms. A suitable method to do this is passive…
Time and tide: Seasonal, diel and tidal rhythms in Wadden Sea harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena)
Zein, Beate; Woelfing, Benno; Dähne, Michael; Schaffeld, Tobias; Ludwig, Stefan; Rye, Jacob Hansen; Baltzer, Johannes; Ruser, Andreas; Siebert, Ursula
PLOS ONE (2019)
Odontocetes have evolved a rich diversity of prey- and habitat-specific foraging strategies, which allows them to feed opportunistically on locally and temporally abundant prey. While habitat-specific foraging strategies have been…
High levels of food intake in harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena): Insight into recovery from disturbance
Kastelein, Ronald A.; Helder-Hoek, Lean; Booth, Cormac; Jennings, Nancy; Leopold, Mardik
Aquatic Mammals (2019)
If harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) are impaired in their foraging ability because they need to move away from anthropogenic sound sources, their fitness may be reduced. Understanding how much harbor…
A preliminary study on diet of the Yangtze finless porpoise using next‐generation sequencing techniques
Yang, Jiwei; Wan, Xiaoling; Zeng, Xianyuan; Zheng, Jinsong; Han, Yi; Fan, Fei; Hao, Yujiang; Wang, Kexiong; Mei, Zhigang; Wang, Ding
Marine Mammal Science (2019)
...the diet of the Yangtze finless porpoise has been poorly known for a long time because of the lack of studies of stomach contents. Until now, only one study (Chen…
Food for thought: Harbor porpoise foraging behavior and diet inform vulnerability to disturbance
Booth, Cormac G.
Marine Mammal Science (2019)
Research has shown that noise disturbance can disrupt the behavior of harbor porpoises. The significance of such disturbance is unclear. However, these animals may be vulnerable to starvation when disturbed…
Salmonid passive integrated transponder tags and coded wire tags found in the forestomach of a harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) in southwestern Washington
D’Alessandro, Dalin N.; Duffield, Deborah A.
Fishery Bulletin (2019)
A dead adult harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) was found on the Long Beach Peninsula in Washington on 22 August 2012. The harbor porpoise was skeletonized, with the forestomach being the…
Harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) reaction to a 3D seismic airgun survey in the North Sea
Sarnocińska, Joanna; Teilmann, Jonas; Balle, Jeppe Dalgaard; van Beest, Floris M.; Delefosse, Matthieu; Tougaard, Jakob
Frontiers in Marine Science (2020)
The most common cetacean in the North Sea is the harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena). Underwater noise is increasingly recognized as a source of impact on the marine environment and seismic…
Harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena vomerina) catching and handling large fish on the U.S. west coast
Elliser, Cindy R.; Hessing, Sanne; MacIver, Katrina H.; Webber, Marc A.; Keener, William
Aquatic Mammals (2020)
...This short note documents instances of prey handling and consumption of large fish species along the West Coast of the United States (U.S.), including the Salish Sea (inland waters of…