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Volume 11, Issue 2 – March 2006

João Pedro Barreiros, Manuel Teves and João Rodeia: First record of the Harbour Porpoise, Phocoena phocoena (Cetacea: Phocoenidae) in the Azores (NE Atlantic), pp. 45-46

Abstract

Occurrence of Phocoena phocoena (Cetacea: Phocoenidae) in the Azores.
The harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) is a small cetacean widely distributed on both sides of the North Atlantic. It is a coastal species seriously threatened by fishing, pollution and environmental changes (Donovan & Bjørge, 1995; Palka et al., 1996) with some populations, such as those from the Baltic, North and Black seas, drastically dwindling…