| | CETACEAN STRANDINGS INVESTIGATION: ENGLAND AND WALES |
| | 0,09 | | MB | AND POSEIDON DATABASE |
| | 36 | | stron |
| | 3703 | | ID | Institute of Zoology, The Zoological Society of London |
| | 2002 | | rok |
| | CONTENTS |
| | Executive summary . 4 |
| | 1. Introduction 6 |
| | 1.1 Aim |
| | 1.2 Policy background |
| | 1.3 Achievement of project objectives |
| | 2 Methodology 9 |
| | 2.1 Management and personnel |
| | 2.2 Protocols for reporting of strandings and post-mortem investigation Reporting of marine |
| | mammal strandings |
| | Reporting of live cetacean strandings |
| | Pathology laboratories |
| | Standard protocols for post-mortem examination, tissue sampling and data recording |
| | 2.3 Collaboration with other organisations |
| | 2.4 Tissue archive and Poseidon central database |
| | 2.5 Reporting of data |
| | 2.6 Training |
| | 3 Results . 17 |
| | 3.1 Causes of mortality in cetaceans (1995-1999) |
| | Entanglement in fishing gear (by-catch) |
| | Physical trauma |
| | Infectious disease |
| | Starvation |
| | Live stranding |
| | Dystocia and stillborn |
| | Neoplasia |
| | Other causes of death |
| | 3.2 Causes of mortality in grey seals |
| | 4 Results of analyses of pooled data .. 23 |
| | 4.1 Patterns of harbour porpoise mortality (1990-1999) |
| | 4.2 Studies of the pathology and epidemiology of cetacean diseases |
| | Investigations into the epidemiology of morbillivirus in cetaceans in UK waters |
| | The pulmonary pathology of harbour porpoises (1990-1996) |
| | 4.3 Relationships between contaminants and infectious disease in harbour porpoises |
| | Polychlorinated biphenyls and infectious disease mortality |
| | Heavy metals and infectious disease mortality |
| | 4.4 Other analyses of contaminants |
| | Metals and organochlorines in other species |
| | Butyltins |
| | Radionuclides |
| | 4.5 Other ongoing research of pooled data on harbour porpoises |
| | Molecular genetic analysis of population structure |
| | Relationships between lungworm abundance and immunosuppressive contaminants |
| | Possible combined effect of organochlorines and heavy metals on health status |
| | Reproductive system pathology |
| | 5 Conclusions.. 31 |
| | 6 Recommendations for future research . 33 |
| | 7 List of publications directly resulting from this project 1995-2000. 34 |
| | Appendices 37 |
| | 1 Details of postmortem examinations conducted during the period of this report |
| | 2 The standardised post-mortem examination guidelines and report forms for cetaceans |
| | 3 The standardised post-mortem examination guidelines and report forms for seals |
| | List of plates.. 77 |