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PCB pollution continues to impact populations of orcas and other dolphins in European waters
(Macmillan Publishers, 2016-01)
Organochlorine (OC) pesticides and the more persistent polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) have well-established dose-dependent toxicities to birds, fish and mammals in experimental studies, but the actual impact of OC ...
Temporal and spatial trends in stranding records of cetaceans on the Irish coast, 2002–2014
(Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 2016)
Using Irish strandings data collected between 2002 and 2014, seasonal and annual trends in the number of strandings for all strandings identified to species level (N ¼ 1480), and for the five most frequently reported ...
PHOTO-IDENTIFICATION OF BOTTLENOSE DOLPHINS (TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS) IN TRALEE BAY AND BRANDON BAY, CO. KERRY: A CASE FOR SAC BOUNDARY EXTENSION
(ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY, 2016)
The Lower River Shannon is a Special Area of Conservation (SAC) with bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops
truncatus) as a qualifying interest, and is one of only two SACs for this species in Ireland. Bottlenose
dolphins in the ...
A flexible decision support tool for MSY-based MPA design
(2016)
ICES WGEF recommends that demersal elasmobranchs be managed using spatial proxies 11 for Maximum Sustainable Yield. Here we combine escapement biomass – the percentage of the stock which must be retained each year to ...