Dear all, here are some new publications of week 07 / 2006, which haven't been announced on MARMAM earlier AFAIK. By clicking the following link you are guided to a website, where the following references are linked to their according journal homepages. There you can find abstracts and contact information: http://www.mmbib.com/news.html Please do not contact MARMAM, the MARMAM editors or me for reprints. Thank you. Kindest Regards, Jan Herrmann CETACEA Bisack, K.D. and J.G. Sutinen (2006): Harbor Porpoise Bycatch: ITQs or Time/Area Closures in the New England Gillnet Fishery. Land Economics 82(1): 85-102. Dalton, R. (2006): Panel quits in row over sonar damage. Nature 439(7075): 376-377. Hastie, G.D., B. Wilson, and P.M. Thompson (2006): Diving deep in a foraging hotspot: acoustic insights into bottlenose dolphin dive depths and feeding behaviour. Marine Biology 148(5): 1181-1188. Knowles, T.G. and A. Butterworth (2006): Immediate immobilisation of a Minke whale using a grenade harpoon requires striking a restricted target area. Animal Welfare 15(1): 55-57. Rossi-Santos, M.R. and J. Podos (2006): Latitudinal variation in whistle structure of the estuarine dolphin Sotalia guianensis. Behaviour 143(3): 347-364. Tougaard, J. and N. Eriksen (2006): Analysing differences among animal songs quantitatively by means of the Levenshtein distance measure. Behaviour 143(2): 239-252. PINNIPEDIA Härkönen, T. et al. (2006): The 1988 and 2002 phocine distemper virus epidemics in European harbour seals. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 68(2): 115-130. McMahon, C.R., C.J. Bradshaw, and G.C. Hays (2006): Branding can be justified in vital conservation research. Nature 439(7075): 392. -- --> jan.herrmann -at - cetacea.de