Dolphins, Whales and Porpoises: 2002-2010 Conservation - IUCN

23. Assess existing and planned water
development projects and gold mining
in the Amazon and Orinoco basins .........66
24. Develop a conservation strategy for
South American river dolphins ............66
25. Assess fishery interactions with cetaceans
in Brazil ..............................66
26. Identify threats and evaluate the status
of marine tucuxi populations in Brazil ......67
27. Conduct aerial surveys to estimate
franciscana abundance. ..................67
28. Investigate stock identity of franciscanas ....67
29. Develop a management strategy to conserve
the franciscana .........................68
30. Monitor cetacean interactions with
Argentine fisheries. .....................68
31. Monitor interactions between fisheries and
cetaceans in Chile ......................69
32. Assess illegal use of small cetaceans for
crab bait in southern South America ........69
33. Investigate stock identity of endemic
species in South America ................69
34. Monitor incidental and direct catches of
small cetaceans in Peru ..................70
35. Assess the impacts of artisanal gillnet
fisheries on small cetaceans in the eastern
tropical Pacific ........................70
36. Develop a conservation plan for cetaceans
in the Gulf of California (Sea of Cortés) ....71
37. Assess potential impacts on cetaceans of
Mexico’s planned “Nautical Stairway”
along the coasts of Baja California and
the mainland ..........................71
38. Investigate live-capture fisheries for
bottlenose dolphins in Mexico and Cuba ....72
39. Conduct cetacean abundance estimation
workshops in Latin America ..............72
5.3 Africa. ................................72
Projects ...............................73
40. Investigate cetacean mortality in western
Madagascar ...........................73
41. Investigate bycatches and directed takes
of small cetaceans in Ghana, West Africa. ...73
42. Investigate bycatches and directed takes
of small cetaceans in Senegal and
The Gambia, north-western Africa .........74
43. Investigate the status of Atlantic humpbacked
dolphins in north-western Africa. ....74
44. Investigate cetacean mortality in the
eastern tropical Atlantic tuna purse
seine fishery. ..........................74
45. Investigate the potential effects of oil
and gas development on humpback
whales and other cetaceans in coastal
waters of West Africa ...................75
5.4 Europe ................................75
Projects ...............................76
46. Assess abundance and threats to survival
of harbor porpoises in the Black Sea and
surrounding waters .....................76
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47. Investigate the distribution, abundance,
population structure, and factors
threatening the conservation of shortbeaked
common dolphins in the
Mediterranean and Black Seas ............76
48. Investigate the distribution and abundance
of bottlenose dolphins in the
Mediterranean and Black Seas, and
evaluate threats to their survival ...........77
49. Develop and test approaches to reducing
conflicts between bottlenose dolphins and
small-scale fisheries in the Mediterranean
Sea..................................78
50. Conduct a basin-wide assessment of
sperm whale abundance and distribution
in the Mediterranean Sea .................79
51. Assess abundance, distribution, and
population structure of harbor porpoises
in the Baltic Sea and support efforts to
promote their recovery. ..................79
52. Assess the status of bowhead whales
between East Greenland and Russia and
identify threats to their survival and
recovery .............................79
5.5 North America ..........................80
Projects ...............................80
53. Promote intensive field research on
bowhead whales in the eastern
Canadian Arctic ........................80
54. Investigate the status of narwhal
populations subject to hunting, and
ensure that regulations are adequate for
conservation. ..........................81
5.6 Topical projects .........................81
55. Promote increased consideration of
freshwater cetaceans in water development
projects. ..............................81
56. Investigate the feasibility of using a passive
acoustic method to estimate abundance of
freshwater cetaceans ....................81
57. Global review of interactions between
cetaceans and longline fisheries ...........82
Chapter 6. Recommended Conservation Action ...83
6.1 Species. ...............................84
Baiji, or Yangtze river dolphin ...............84
Vaquita, or Gulf of California porpoise ........85
Franciscana ..............................86
Hector’s dolphin ..........................87
6.2 Geographical populations .................88
Irrawaddy dolphins in the Mahakam River,
Indonesia .............................88
Irrawaddy dolphins in Malampaya Sound,
Philippines ............................89
Short-beaked common dolphins in the
Mediterranean Sea ......................89
References ..................................91
Appendix 1. Members of the Cetacean
Specialist Group .............................121
Appendix 2. IUCN Red List Categories and
Criteria Version 3.1 ..........................123
Appendix 3. IUCN/SSC Action Plans for
the Conservation of Biological Diversity .........137