Ophelia (1994)
The reproduction and reproductive seasonality of 365 Danish harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena (L.)) incidentally caught in various gill nets or stranded, was studied. The animals were collected from all Danish…
Interactions between marine mammals and the coastal fisheries of Necochea and Claromecó (Buenos Aires Province, Argentina)
Corcuera, J.; Monzon, F.; Crespo, E. A.; Aguilar, A.; Raga, J. A.
Report of the International Whaling Commission (1994)
Coastal and pelagic fishing activities in the area of Necochea harbour, where high mortality of franciscanas (Pontoporia blainvillei) in gillnets had been previously reported, and at Claromeco, a small gillnet…
Investigation of aspects of the life history of the harbour porpoise, Phocoena phocoena, in British waters
Lockyer, C.
Report of the International Whaling Commission (1995)
Specimens of harbour porpoises, Phocoena phocoena, from strandings and bycatches in fisheries around the British Isles between 1985 and September 1994 have been examined. Full autopsies were undertaken on most…
Harbour porpoises, Phocoena phocoena, in Portuguese waters
Sequeira, M.
Report of the International Whaling Commission (1996)
Biological data on the harbour porpoise in Portuguese coastal waters are scarce, mainly because of the small number of animals available for study. Nevertheless, a regular geographical distribution pattern can…
Life history of the vaquita, Phocoena sinus (Phocoenidae, Cetacea)
Hohn, A. A.; Read, A. J.; Fernandez, S.; Vidal, O.; Findley, L. T.
Journal of Zoology (1996)
The vaquita, Phocoena sinus, is the most endangered marine cetacean primarily due to incidental mortality in fishing nets. We examined a sample of 56 vaquitas to study the life history…
Status of the harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) in Danish waters
Teilmann, J.; Lowry, N.
Report of the International Whaling Commission (1996)
Harbour porpoises are widely distributed in the seas around Denmark. Total abundance in Danish waters is estimated as approximately 100,000 animals. Population density varies considerably by area. There are probably…
Summary of current knowledge of harbour porpoises in US and Canadian Atlantic waters
Palka, D. L.; Read, A. J.; Westgate, A. J.; Johnston, D. W.
Report of the International Whaling Commission (1996)
This paper summarises current knowledge of the three populations of harbour porpoises in US and Canadian Atlantic waters. During the summer, the populations are centred in the Gulf of Maine/Bay…
Genital and lingual warts in small cetaceans from coastal Peru
Van Bressem, M. F.; Van Waerebeek, K.; Piérard, G. E.; Desaintes, C.
Diseases of Aquatic Organisms (1996)
We report on genital warts in dusky dolphins Lagenorhynchus obscurus, long-snouted common dolphins Delphinus capensis, bottlenose dolphins Tursiops truncatus and Burmeister's porpoises Phocoena spinipinnis caught in fisheries off central Peru.…
Megatestes: Anatomical evidence for sperm competition in the harbor porpoise
Fontaine, P. M.; Barrette, C.
Mammalia (1997)
We collected testes from 62 male harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) incidentally caught in gillnets of commercial fisheries in the Gulf of St-Lawrence, in June-July- August. In adults (≥4 years), both…
Observations of parturition and related behaviors of finless porpoise (Neophocaena phocaenoides) in Enoshima Aquarium, Japan
Yang, Jian; Zhang, Xian-Feng; Hori, Yukiko; Fujimoto, Asami
Oceanologia et Limnologia Sinica (1998)
A pregnant finless porpoise (Neophocaena phocaenoides), whose body length (BL) was 1.63 m and body weight (BW) was 75.8 kg, gave birth to a female calf successfully in Enoshima Aquarium,…