“This study adds to the growing understanding of how underwater noise and the increasing vessel traffic affects our environment, and in particular a noise-sensitive species like the harbour porpoise,” ...

Around the world, fishermen use low-cost nets that sit like fences on coastal seafloors. Known as set gill nets, this type of gear is highly effective at catching fish when the mesh snags them by ...

Harbor porpoises feed less and alter behavior when ships are nearby, suggesting boat traffic may threaten already vulnerable ...

Harbor porpoises "buzz" less when boats and ships are nearby—suggesting a drop in feeding and socializing, new research shows ...

WASHINGTON (CN) – The National Marine Fisheries Service will create “consequence” closure areas to reduce the number of harbor porpoises incidentally caught by commercial gillnet ...

Two harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) washed up on an eastern Belgian shore on September 24, 2011. The porpoises were still bleeding when they were collected, indicating that their deaths were ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ultimately, scientists say an acute understanding of harbor porpoises and identifying key components of social hotspots like San ...

Two of a small group of harbor porpoises that are feeding in Useless Bay off Whidbey Island surface on July 2. After nearly disappearing from local waters for decades, harbor porpoises are once again ...

Like seasoned New Yorkers, the porpoises have adapted to the sounds troubling their universe. Also, investigators find an arsenal at the Gilgo Beach suspect’s home. By James Barron Good morning. It’s ...

YES. GOOD ONE. ED. YEAH. YOU REMEMBER A FEW YEARS AGO WE SAW A PORPOISE OUT IN THE DEEPER PART OF THE HARBOR, OVER THERE BY THE GAS TANK. THIS TIME ONE CAME INTO THIS. THIS SMALL INLET NEAR TINIAN ...

@universalhub @NEAQ dolphin in the channel this AM pic.twitter.com/F7RplHl54Z — Jen richard (@Jenboston) March 21, 2017 March 21 (UPI) --Experts said a video ...