Title Start Date End Date Implementing Agency Status Region
Coordination of the ASCOBANS Harbour Porpoise Action Plans

Sea Watch Foundation/Peter Evans-
Coalition Clean Baltic/Ida Carlén

Ongoing Europe
ASCOBANS Anniversary Publication

Sea Watch Foundation / Peter Evans

Completed Europe
Baltic Sea Harbour Porpoise Foraging Habitats (BALHAB)

Bioscience Aarhus University

Completed Baltic Sea
Update and Revision of the Recovery Plan for Baltic Harbour Porpoises (Jastarnia Plan)

AquaBiota Water Research ABWR AB

Completed Baltic Sea
Development of a fully costed proposal for a web-accessed database for cetacean stranding and necropsy data in the ASCOBANS region

Zoological Society of London

Completed Europe
Examine habitat exclusion and long term effect of pingers

Line Anker Kyhn / Aarhus University, Denmark,

Completed
Distribution and relative abundance of harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) over Dogger Bank and surrounding waters, Southern North Sea

Marine Conservation Research International

Completed
Effects of contaminants on reproduction, Phase II

Sinéad Murphy / University of St. Andrews

Completed
Pollutant exposure in coastal top predators: assessing current levels of exposure and toxic effects

The Zoological Society of London, Institute of Zoology, United Kingdom

Completed
Feasibility study on the creation of a web-accessed strandings database covering Agreement Party and Range States within the ASCOBANS region

Rob Deaville / Zoological Society of London

Completed
Analysis of New Data Sets for Risk Assessment of Potential Conflicts between Shipping and Cetaceans in the ASCOBANS Region

Sea Watch Foundation

Completed
Approaches to an Impact Indicator in the Light of Descriptor 11 (MSFD)

Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (WDCS), München, Germany

Completed
Inventories of harbour porpoise Phocaena phocaena phocaena presence in Russian territorial waters of the Baltic Sea

Biologists for Nature Conservation

Understanding harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) and fisheries interactions in the north-west Iberian Peninsula

Fiona Read / University of Aberdeen

Completed
Development of a co-ordinated reporting system and HELCOM/ASCOBANS database on Baltic Sea harbour porpoise sightings, by-catches and strandings

HELCOM Secretariat

Completed Baltic Sea
Risk Assessment of Potential Conflicts between Shipping and Cetaceans in the ASCOBANS Region and Analysis of New Data Sets for Risk Assessment of Potential Conflicts between Shipping and Cetaceans in the ASCOBANS Region

Peter Evans / Sea Watch Foundation

Genetic structure of white-sided dolphin (Lagenorhynchus acutus) in the Eastern North Atlantic

Eulalia Banguera Hinestroza / University of Durham

Completed
Historic and present harbour porpoise populations in the Baltic region – geometric morphometrics analysis

Anders Galatius Jørgensen / University of Aarhus

Effects of Contaminants on Reproduction in Small Cetaceans

Sinéad Murphy / University of St. Andrews

Completed
Enhanced detection of harbour porpoises prior to ramming, seismic blasts and ammunition clearance: design and construction of a PAL-porpoise detector (PPD)

Boris Culik / F³: Forschung . Fakten . Fantasie.

Completed