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Small cetaceans
ASCOBANS on implementation of a recovery plan for harbour porpoises in the Baltic Sea; updates of progress on any previous recommendations made by the Scientific Committee. (A summary of the most recent work of the Scientific Committee can be found HERE). Representatives from the ...
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WWF - Problems: Pollution
Some impacts of pollutants on species: Harbour porpoises in the Baltic and North Seas as well as in Danish, Icelandic, and Norwegian coastal waters are being heavily contaminated with perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS) and to a lesser extent with perfluorocarboxylates. PFOS is a ...
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Dolphin Care UK -
Reports on TV and in the media have shown animals all around the Kent coast. 3 harbour porpoises off Dungeness in Kent. Eleven sightings of bottlenose dolphins reported Harbour ... with a total of 220 recorded in 2004. Under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, cetaceans, porpoises, dolphins and whales, are protected species. Anyone found guilty of their ill-treatment faces a ...
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Dolphin Care UK -
Puffing pig Primary Classification:Odontocete (Toothed whale, dolphin or porpoise) Sub Classification:Phocoenidae Description: Harbour porpoises are small compared to other species of porpoise. They have a rounded head which ... long as six minutes, before they come back up for breath! The blow of the harbour porpoise is difficult to see, but can be easily heard by the puffing sound that ...
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Sable Island Cetaceans 2
Sable Island Cetaceans 2 A freshly beached Harbour porpoise. This species is most often found on the island's shoreline during winter, and may strand more often than indicated by the beach surveys.
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--- Catch statistics for marine mammals in the North Atlantic ---
Faroe Islands 1584 - 2000 The table shows number of individuals of each species caught each year Year Pilot whales Bottlenose whales Blue whales Fin whales Sei whales Humback whales Minke whales Sperm whales Right whales Bottlenose dolphins Harbour porpoises White-sided dolphins Killer whales 1584 4 3 1585 0 1586 0 1587 0 1588 115 1589 0 1590 0 1591 0 ...
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Marine Connection
West of England is one of the UK's best locations for observing whales, dolphins and porpoises (known collectively as cetaceans). This report by Marine Connection and The Wildlife Trusts examines 14 years ... fishing gear is the number one cause of death in stranded cetaceans, particularly common dolphins and harbour porpoises. If we want to reduce human impacts on dolphins and protect the region's ...
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Hybrid Marine Mammals
Bottlenose Dolphins. In the wild, bands of males of one dolphin species have been observed to gang rape a female Spinner. Blue Whales, Fin Whales and Humpback Whales all hybridise in the wild. Dall's Porpoises and Harbour Porpoises have hybridized in the wild. There has also been a reported hybrid between a beluga and a narwhal. Textual content is ...
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STW - Harbour Porpoise
Harbour porpoises are observed from both boat transects and shore-based operations. Each boat transect is ... surface, a correction factor will be developed to be used for aerial censuses of harbor porpoises. Based on these aerial censuses, researchers can then estimate the San Juan Island harbor population ...
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SoundNet - Dolphin Communications - A personal experience with a Harbour Porpoise
(Sheridan House 1988 - ISBN 0 911378 78 2)). Dolphin Communications: A personal experience with a Harbour Porpoise By Carol Drummond biorealism@adelphia.net I have enjoyed everyone's comments and speculation ... the Harbour Porpoise... The Common Porpoise is small and chunky, rather stoutly built for its size... the flippers are oval in outline and relatively small... as a rule Common Porpoises are ...
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