Assessing auditory evoked potentials of wild harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena)

Ruser, Andreas; Dähne, Michael; van Neer, Abbo; Lucke, Klaus; Sundermeyer, Janne; Siebert, Ursula; Houser, Dorian S.; Finneran, James J.; Everaarts, Eligius; Meerbeek, Jolanda; Dietz, Rune; Sveegaard, Signe; Teilmann, Jonas
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (2016)

Testing the hearing abilities of marine mammals under water is a challenging task. Sample sizes are usually low, thus limiting the ability to generalize findings of susceptibility towards noise influences.…


Pile driving playback sounds and temporary threshold shift in harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena): Effect of exposure duration

Kastelein, Ronald A.; Helder-Hoek, Lean; Covi, Jennifer; Gransier, Robin
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (2016)

High intensity underwater sounds may cause temporary hearing threshold shifts (TTSs) in harbor porpoises, the magnitude of which may depend on the exposure duration. After exposure to playbacks of pile…


A review of studies on attempts to reduce the entanglement of the Dall’s Porpoise, Phocoenoides dalli, in the Japanese salmon gillnet fishery

Hatakeyama, Y.; Ishii, K.; Akamatsu, T.; Soeda, H.; Shimamura, T.; Kojima, T.
Report of the International Whaling Commission (1994)

Dall's porpoises, Phocoenoides dalli, were often incidentally caught in the Japanese salmon gillnet fishery in the North Pacific. In order to investigate the reasons for entanglement, their auditory characteristics and…