Marine mammal species confirmed from Phiippine waters
1992
Stephen, Leatherwood. | Dolar, Maria Louella L. | Wood, Colin J. | Aragones, Lemuel V. | Hill, Cynthia L.
In 1990, the authors began compiling information ( from strandings, interviews, trained observers aboard fishing vessels, unpublished sources, examination of specimens taken in fisheries, and surveys) on marine mammal presence, relative abundance, and involvement in fisheries in Philippine waters. Through September 1992, the Philippine marine mammal fauna had been confirmed to include 17 species. At least those indicated are involved in direct fisheries (+) or are taken incidental to gill-netting or scining operations(*): Risso's(+*)bottlenose(+*), rough-toothed (*)pantropical spotted (+*), long snouted spinner (+*), and Fraser's (+*), dolphins, melon-headed (+*), pygmy-killer, short-finned pilot (+*), Blainville's beaked (+), sperm (+), pygmy sperm (+), dwarf-sperm, humpback (+), minke and Bryde's (+) whales, and dugongs (+*). Eight other species for which yet unconfirmed reports exists are: striped, common and Indo-Pacific humpbacked dolphins, and blue, bottlenose, goosebeaked, killer and false killer whales. There is evidence that incidental takes in fishing operations have given rise to directed fisheries for small cetaceans as human populations have burgeoned and trditionally harvested marine species have decline.
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