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…
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…
Records of harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) in fishing nets during the interwar period in Poland: Verification of archival materials
Psuty, Iwona
Aquatic Mammals (2013)
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…
The enigma of harbor porpoise presence in the Mediterranean Sea
Frantzis, Alexandros; Gordon, Jonathan; Hassidis, Gilda; Komnenou, Anastasia
Marine Mammal Sci (2001)
(...) 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…
The black finless porpoise, Meomeris
Allen, G.M.
Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology (1923)
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…
Family Phocoenidae Gray, 1825
Rice, D.W.
Marine Mammals of the World: Systematics and Distribution (1998)
(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…
Status, ecology and life history of harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena), in Danish waters
Lockyer, Christina; Kinze, Carl
NAMMCOSP (2003)
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…
Exploitation of harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) in Danish waters: A historical review
Kinze, C.C.
Report of the International Whaling Commission (1995)
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…
A preliminary analysis of the British stranding records of the harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena)
Easton, D. F.; Klinowska, M.; Sheldrick, M. C.
Report of the International Whaling Commission (1982)
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…
Smaller cetaceans in the Baltic Sea
Aguayo, A. L.
Report of the International Whaling Commission (1978)
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…