Interim Report of the ASCOBANS Resource Depletion Working Group

33 pages.-- 9th Meeting of the Parties, online 7-11 September 2020 The ASCOBANS area hosts a high diversity of small cetaceans (36 species – Evans, 2020). This includes a large number of delphinids, the most common of which arecommon dolphin (Delphinus delphis), striped dolphin (Stenella coeruleoalb...

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Main Authors: Brownlow, Andrew, Evans, Peter G. H., Ijsseldijk, Lonneke, Kaminska, Katarzyna, Kessler, Lucie, Pierce, Graham J., Pinn, Eunice, Ridoux, Vincent, Spitz, Jerome, Stockin, Karen, Taylor, Nikki
Format: Conference Object
Language:English
Published: 2020
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/231593
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Summary:33 pages.-- 9th Meeting of the Parties, online 7-11 September 2020 The ASCOBANS area hosts a high diversity of small cetaceans (36 species – Evans, 2020). This includes a large number of delphinids, the most common of which arecommon dolphin (Delphinus delphis), striped dolphin (Stenella coeruleoalba), bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus),white-beaked dolphin (Lagenorhynchus albirostris),Atlantic white-sided dolphin (Lagenorhynchus acutus), Risso’s dolphin (Grampus griseus), long-finned pilot whale (Globicephala melas), and killer whale (Orcinus orca). Other small odontocetes present include several beaked-whales: northern bottlenose whale (Hyperoodon ampullatus); Sowerby’s beaked whale (Mesoplodon bidens); and Cuvier’s beaked whale (Ziphius cavirostris). Within the family Phocoenidae, only one member is present: the harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) Peer reviewed