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SPECIAL STATUS SPECIES: Harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena)
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Non-Cited References

Barlow J, Hanan D (1995) An assessment of the status of the harbour porpoise in central California. In: Bjorge A, Donovan GP (eds) Biology of the Phocoenids. Report of the International Whaling Commission (Special Issue 16), Cambridge, p 123-140.

Carretta JV (2002) Preliminary estimates of cetacean mortality in California gillnet fisheries for 2001. Southwest Fisheries Science Center, NOAA, National Marine Fisheries Service, La Jolla, CA.

Chivers SJ, Robertson KM, Henshaw MD (1997) Composition of the incidental kill of cetaceans in two California gillnet fisheries: 1990-1995. Report of the International Whaling Commission 0:909-915.

Folkens P, Reeves RR, Stewart BS, Clapham PJ, Powell JA (2002) National Audubon Society Guide to Marine Mammals of the World. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, NY.

Julian F, Beeson M (1998) Estimates of marine mammal, turtle, and seabird mortality for two California gillnet fisheries: 1990-1995. Fishery Bulletin 96:271-284.

Reeves RR, Smith BD, Crespo EA, di Sciara GN (2003) Dolphins, Whales and Porpoises: 2002-2010 Conservation Action Plan for the World's Cetaceans. IUCN/SSC Cetacean Specialist Group. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.


More Information on SIMoN
Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, SIMoN, Marine Mammal Monitoring Projects.
http://sanctuarysimon.org/monterey/sections/marineMammals/projects.php?sec=mm

Website Links

Cetacean Society International Homepage: http://www.csiwhalesalive.org/

New England Aquarium, Science and Learning, Animal Rescue. http://www.neaq.org/conservation_and_research/projects/conservation_medicine/rescue_and_rehabilitation/learn_about_rescue_and_rehabilitation/index.php

NOAA Office of Protected Resources, Marine Mammal Health and Stranding Response Program. http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/prot_res/PR2/Health_and_Stranding_Response_Program/mmhsrp.html

NOAA, Office of Protected Resources, Stock Assessment Reports. http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/sars/

NOAA, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Coastal Marine Mammal Program, Harbor Porpoise Aerial Survey. http://swfsc.noaa.gov/textblock.aspx?Division=PRD&ParentMenuId=148&id=1249

The Marine Mammal Center, Research, Tracking Studies, Satellite Tracking of the harbor porpoise Garber. http://www.tmmc.org/what_we_do/release/studies/garber.asp

WhaleNet, Movie Collection. http://whale.wheelock.edu/movies/

WhaleNet, Satellite Tracking of Harbor Porpoise "Gus". http://whale.wheelock.edu/whalenet-stuff/StopUNE04Hp/data_Gus.html


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