Health assessment of harbour porpoises (PHOCOENA PHOCOENA) from Baltic area of Denmark, Germany, Poland and Latvia

• Published in: Environment International
• Main Authors: Siebert, U., Pawliczka, I., Benke, H., von Vietinghoff, V., Wolf, P., Pilāts, V., Kesselring, T., Lehnert, K., Prenger-Berninghoff, E., Galatius, A., Anker Kyhn, L., Teilmann, J., Hansen, M. S., Sonne, C., Wohlsein, P.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Anthropogenic acitivities; Baltic Sea; By-catch; Harbour porpoise; Health; Pathology; Phocoena phocoena; Arctic; Kattegat
• Online Access: https://pure.au.dk/portal/da/publications/health-assessment-of-harbour-porpoises-phocoena-phocoena-from-baltic-area-of-denmark-germany-poland-and-latvia(afbdfe4a-049d-48dd-8f2f-c8aa258595bd).html; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2020.105904; http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85087026299&partnerID=8YFLogxK

Harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena), the only resident cetacean species of the Baltic Sea is formed of two subpopulations populations, occurring in the western Baltic, Belt Seas and Kattegat and the Baltic Proper, respectively. Harbour porpoises throughout these areas are exposed to a large number...