Journal of Marine Animals and Their Ecology (2015)
The population of the critically endangered vaquita has decreased alarmingly to less than 100 individuals due to by-catch in legal and illegal fisheries of totoaba, shrimp, shark, and others in…
The population of the critically endangered vaquita has decreased alarmingly to less than 100 individuals due to by-catch in legal and illegal fisheries of totoaba, shrimp, shark, and others in…
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 Polish fisheries administration registered incidents of harbour porpoises caught by fishermen from fishing bases within the country's borders between 1922 and 1938. These data are unique in the Baltic…
(...) Harbor porpoises are assumed to have colonized the Black Sea from the Atlantic Ocean (Gaskin 1982, Rosel 1997). This hypothesized relationship is based on both geographical proximity and genetic…
Among the collections brought back by Mr. F. R. Wulsin after a year’s stay in China are three skeletons and an entire body of the small porpoise, Meomeris phocaenoides, a…
(page 121) (...) Miller (1925) and Kellogg (1928) included the true porpoises in the family Delphinidae and did not even grant them subfamily status. However, Slijper (1936) and Fraser and…
A review of historical harbour porpoise catches in Danish waters, together with current distribution, are provided. Most information on distribution is derived from historical catch data with a total of…
Historically harbour porpoises have been taken at six major catch sites in Danish waters. The most important site, in the northern Little Belt at Middelfart, was first mentioned in 1357…
The records of strandings of the harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) on British coasts were analysed for the period 1913-1979. No significant upward or downward trend was found for the record…
The paper reports on research into the available published literature concerning those smaller cetaceans which penetrate into the Baltic Sea, bearing in mind that the Skagerrak is not included in…