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Feeding behaviour of harbour porpoises ( Phocoena phocoena) in the Ems estuary Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) was used to study the occurrence and distribution of feeding behaviour of harbour porpoises ( Phocoena phocoena) in the Ems estuary, on the border between the Netherlands and Germany...

Abundance of harbour porpoises ( Phocoena phocoena) on the Dutch Continental Shelf, aerial surveys 2012-2017 The harbour porpoise ( Phocoena phocoena) is the most abundant marine mammal species in Dutch waters. Aerial surveys along predesigned track lines in 2012-2017 provided density and abundance...

Strandings of cetaceans in Belgium from 1995 to 2017 It is a tradition that regular overviews are published of strandings of cetaceans. The last overviews for Belgium covered the period 1975 to 1989 and 1990 to 1994. This overview deals with strandings between 1995 and 2017. Along the short Belgian...

Cetacean stranding records along the Danish coastline: records for the period 2008-2017 and a comparative review For the period 2008-2017, finds of stranded cetaceans along the Danish coastline are listed and reviewed in comparison to the preceding 40-year period (1968-2007). The harbour porpoise (...

Chris Smeenk - 1942-2017 On 23 March 2017, Chris (Christiaan) Smeenk, aged 74 years, passed away in Leiden. He was born on 6 July 1942, in ‘Oost- en West-Souburg’, a small community near Vlissingen at Walcheren (Zeeland, in the Dutch delta area). After he graduated from gymnasium-α, in 1961, Chris...

North Sea cetacean research since the 1960s: advances and gaps In the 1960s, our knowledge of cetaceans in the North Sea depended largely upon strandings schemes that existed in the countries that surround the southern North Sea, particularly the UK (Fraser 1974, Sheldrick 1976, 1989, Sheldrick et...