Abundance decline in the finless porpoise population in the Inland Sea of Japan

Raffles Bulletin of Zoology

Volumn , Issue SUPPL. 10, 2002, Pages 57-65

  Kasuya, Toshio ^a   Yamamoto, Yoshiteru ^a   Iwatsuki, Tomoe ^a  

^a TEIKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Asia; Finless porpoise; Incidental catches; Japan; Monitoring; Neophocaena phocaenoides; Pollutants; Trends; Vessel survey

Indexed keywords

NEOPHOCAENA PHOCAENOIDES; PHOCOENIDAE;

EID: 0036587960     PISSN: 02172445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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