THE HARBOUR PORPOISE (PHOCOENA PHOCOENA Linn.) IN INLAND TIDAL WATER BODIES IN YORKSHIRE, HUMBER AND ADJACENT REGIONS

摘要

The occurrences of cetaceans in the waters of Watsonian Yorkshire and adjacent areas have been periodically collated and reviewed in county oriented publications, notably Clarke and Roebuck (1881), Smith (1905), Carr (1906), Grabham (1907), Blathwayt(1912), Spalding (1966), Delany (1985),^owes (2000) and currently the YNU Website. Today, when biodiversity monitoring crucmlly underpins local and national wildlife conservation strategies, cetacean recording is spread across the disparate printed and electronic output (journals and websites) of an expanding range of local, regional and national cetacean recording, sea mammal rescue, marine studies, sub-aqua, veterinary, natural history, bird watching, media and even tourism and lifestyle organisations. Inconvenient though this may be, it encouragingly reflects a lively interest in the subject and provides recording forums for those not associated with formalised scientific recording.