Oryx (2013)
There is growing awareness that small-scale fisheries may have large impacts on threatened marine fauna. Bycatch of small cetaceans by the Peruvian small-scale driftnet fleet results in the deaths of…
Pingers reduce the activity of Burmeister’s porpoise around small-scale gillnet vessels
Clay, T. A.; Alfaro-Shigueto, J.; Godley, B. J.; Tregenza, N.; Mangel, J. C.
Marine Ecology Progress Series (2019)
Incidental mortality (bycatch) in gillnet fisheries is a major threat to many cetacean populations. Acoustic alarms or pingers are a widely adopted management tool used to deter dolphins and porpoises…
Bubble curtains attenuate noise from offshore wind farm construction and reduce temporary habitat loss for harbour porpoises
Dähne, M.; Tougaard, J.; Carstensen, J.; Rose, A.; Nabe-Nielsen, J.
Marine Ecology Progress Series (2017)
Effects of constructing the DanTysk offshore wind farm (German Bight, 80 turbines, 6 m diameter foundations) were studied by passive acoustic monitoring of pile-driving noise and harbour porpoise Phocoena phocoena…
Social responses of travelling finless porpoises to boat traffic risk in Misumi West Port, Ariake Sound, Japan
Morimura, Naruki; Mori, Yusuke
PLOS ONE (2019)
Anthropogenic effects have created various risks for wild animals. Boat traffic is one of the most fatal risks for marine mammals. Individual behavioral responses of cetaceans, including diving behavior such…
The possible effects of high vessel traffic on the physiological parameters of the critically endangered Yangtze finless porpoise (Neophocaena asiaeorientalis ssp. asiaeorientalis)
Nabi, Ghulam; Hao, Yujiang; McLaughlin, Richard William; Wang, Ding
Frontiers in Physiology (2018)
Poyang is the largest freshwater lake in China, where the acoustic environment and space for the critically endangered Yangtze finless porpoises (YFPs) has been altered by heavy vessel traffic and…
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…
Does interspecific competition drive patterns of habitat use and relative density in harbour porpoises?
Díaz López, Bruno; Methion, Séverine
Marine Biology (2018)
Determining the drivers that are responsible for the fine-scale distribution of cetacean species is fundamental to understand better how they respond to changes in their environment. We utilized information theoretic…
Marine noise budgets in practice
Merchant, Nathan D.; Faulkner, Rebecca C.; Martinez, Roi
Conservation Letters (2017)
Many countries have made statutory commitments to ensure that underwater noise pollution is at levels which do not harm marine ecosystems. Nevertheless, coordinated action to manage cumulative noise levels is…
Conservation plan for the harbour porpoise Phocoena phocoena in The Netherlands: Towards a favourable conservation status
Camphuysen, Kees C. J.; Siemensma, Marije L.
NIOZ Reports (2011)
- This is a conservation plan for the Harbour Porpoise Phocoena phocoena based on the current seasonal occurrence and abundance of porpoises within waters under Dutch jurisdiction. - The conservation…
Effectiveness of pingers on the harbour porpoise Phocoena phocoena relicta Abel, 1905 (Cetacea: Phocoenidae) in Turkey as revealed by shore-based observations
Özsandikçi, Uğur; Gönener, Sedat
Acta Zoologica Bulgarica (2020)
The aim of the present study was to assess the effectiveness of pinger devices on the Black-Sea harbour porpoises Phocoena phocoena relicta. The study was carried out in Sinop, Turkey,…