Dataset record
- Type
- Dataset
- title in English
- Baltic porpoise sightings 01-02
- Description in English
- Boat-based acoustic and visual surveys for harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) were conducted during the summers of 2001 and 2002 in order to investigate their distribution and relative abundance in the Baltic Sea, and to compare the results with the adjacent Kiel and Mecklenburg Bights and the Little Belt.
Harbour porpoises are subject to year-round bycatch in gillnets and other fishing gear in these waters. This is of particular concern in the Baltic Sea where a survey carried out in 1995 indicated that the population is low and current levels of anthropogenic mortality are believed to be unsustainable.
- Abstract in English
- Dataset information available at
http://seamap.env.duke.edu/datasets/detail/344
- License
- https://spdx.org/licenses/CC-BY-NC-4.0.html
- bibliographicCitation
- D. Gillespie, P. Berggren, S. Brown, I. Kuklik, C. Lacey, T. Lewis, J. Matthews, R. Mclanaghan, A. Moscrop & N. Tregenza. 2005. Relative abundance of harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena). Journal of Cetacean Research and Managment: 7(1):51-57.
- Version
- 1
- Release
date
- May 29 2009 12:00AM
Temporal coverage
- Temporal
-
- Start date
- 2001-01-01
- End date
- 2002-01-01
Thesaurus terms
- Keyword
- Bio-geographical regions
- Biota
- Environment
- Geoscientific Information
- Habitats and biotopes
- Marine mammals
- Metadata non conformant
- Metadata not evaluated
- No limitations to public access
- Oceans
- Porpoises
- Sea regions
- WGS84 (EPSG:4326)
- XYZ ASCII
Themes
- theme
- Biology > Mammals