The Editors of the Journal of Marine Animals and Their Environment (JMATE) are pleased to announce that the latest issue (vol 4, # 1) has been completed and is available free online at:

The Editors would like to thank all of the reviewers and staff for their assistance in making another issue possible! The Editors are also pleased to announce that JMATE is now listed online on the following search websites: DOAG, CABI and Reuter’s Master Journal List for the Web of Science (Zoological Record).

We are now accepting manuscripts for the next issue of JMATE. If anyone has a manuscript they would like to submit to JMATE please visit our website at: www.oers.ca and follow the JMATE links!

All the best to everyone!

Michael Belanger

Director of Operations

Oceanographic Environmental Research Society (OERS)　

Volume 4, Issue 1; 2011

Journal of Marine Animals and Their Ecology (JMATE)

TABLE of CONTENTS

EDITORIAL...............................................................................................................................pg 1

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR........................................................................................................pg 2

ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS

SCIENTIFIC SECTION:

Revision of the taxonomy of finless porpoises (genus Neophocaena): The existence of two

species

Jefferson TA, Wang JY..
....................................................................................................... pg 3-16

Evaluation of the potential of collisions between Fin whales and maritime traffic in the northwestern Mediterranean Sea

in summer; and mitigation solutions

David L, Alleaume S, Guinet C..
..............................................................................................pg 17-28
BRIEF COMMUNICATION:

Records of Humpback whales (Megoptera novaeangliae) in Sechura bay, Peru, in spring 2009-

2010.

Santillan, L……………………………………………………………..
……………..............………..… pg 29-35