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Commercial fishing constitutes an important food source but induces undesirable bycatch on animals worldwide. This study extends bycatch research geographically to the Western Pacific Ocean, filling a knowledge gap regarding bycatch and mitigation ...
Weijie Fu +10 more
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Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Cetacea, pp. 290-304 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc.
Honacki, James H. +2 more
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The Agoa protected marine area, located in the French West Indies, eastern Caribbean, holds several cetacean species, of which the pantropical spotted dolphin Stenella attenuata is the most commonly observed.
Baptiste Courtin +13 more
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A new fossil dolphin with tusk-like teeth from New Zealand and an analysis of procumbent teeth in fossil cetaceans. [PDF]
ABSTRACT Studies involving anatomical description and taxonomy of fossil odontocetes offer insights into their evolutionary history and diversity. This study analyses tusk‐like teeth in odontocetes including the description of a new species, Nihoroa reimaea, from the Waitaki valley, North Otago, New Zealand.
Coste A, Fordyce RE, Loch C.
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Los mamíferos marinos en la costa central de Oaxaca
CON LA FINALIDAD DE CONOCER LAS ESPECIES DE MAMÍFEROS MARINOS QUE SE ENCUENTRAN EN LA COSTA CENTRAL DE OAXACA, SE ELABORÓ UN LISTADO COMENTANDO LAS CARACTERÍSTICAS DE LOS REGISTROS OBTENIDOS.
JUAN MERAZ +1 more
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Fish aggregating devices (FADs) are floating objects typically used to attract and capture pelagic fish in industrial tuna fisheries. This study documents 9 cases, involving 31 marine mammals, of incidentally captured, killed or otherwise retrieved ...
Castro, C +3 more
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Audiograms and click spectra of seven novel and seldom-tested odontocetes
The use of auditory evoked potentials has been promoted as a means by which to collect audiometric information from odontocete cetaceans that are rarely encountered in stranding situations.
Dorian S. Houser +4 more
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A History of the Tuna-Dolphin Problem: Successes, Failures, and Lessons Learned
Multispecies aggregations of tuna, dolphins, and seabirds are prevalent and conspicuous in the vast waters of the eastern tropical Pacific and form the basis of a commercial fishery for yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares) through setting on schools of ...
Lisa T. Ballance +4 more
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Millions of spinner (Stenella longirostris) and pantropical spotted dolphins (Stenella attenuata) died since the 1960’s as bycatch in tuna nets in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean.
Matthew Steven Leslie +3 more
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Stomach contents of cetaceans incidentally caught along Mangalore and Chennai coasts of India [PDF]
The stomachs of 32 individuals of seven cetacean species incidentally caught in gill net and purseseine fisheries along Mangalore and Chennai coasts (India) between 2004 and 2006 were examined.
Afsal, V V +9 more
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