Dear subscribers to MARMAM ACCOBAMS Secretariat is pleased to announce that the new issue of FINS, the newsletter of ACCOBAMS, is now available as pdf, downloadable from the Agreement's website (1.27 Mb)http://www.accobams.org/2006.php/newsletter/all Table of contents of FINS 4(1): * Editorial * The endangered Mediterranean common dolphins: is there anyone interested in their conservation? (/G. Bearzi/) * The decline of common dolphins around the island of Kalamos, Greece (/G. Bearzi/) * Gazing into a crystal ball at the largest comprehensive cetacean conservation agreement in the world: an important sister agreement to ACCOBAMS is fast developing in the Pacific Islands Region (/M. Prideaux/) * Forum * News from the Secretariat: Third Meeting of the Contracting Parties, Dubrovnik, Croatia, October 2007 (/M.C. Grillo/) * The Black Sea Commission and its role in support to the activities of ACCOBAMS in the Black Sea (/V. Velikova/) * Trends in transboundary protection of Black Sea dolphins and porpoises: 2006 and 2007 were years of basic talks and papers (/A. Birkun, Jr./) * Workshops held on the impacts of noise on cetaceans (/A. J. Wright, S. Dolman/) * Short news. Hurricane, oil spill and cetaceans in the Kerch Strait (/A. Birkun, Jr., S. Krivokhizin/) * Book review /(G. Notarbartolo di Sciara)/ -- Camille Montiglio ACCOBAMS Communication Assistant Jardins de l'UNESCO, Les Terrasses de Fontvieille MC-98000 Monaco Tel: 00377 9898 2078 - Fax: 00377 9898 4208