Contracting Parties Questionnaire: Mmap Profile

CONTRACTING PARTIES QUESTIONNAIRE: MMAP PROFILE

Please fill out the questionnaire and email to the UNEP-CAR/RCU Secretariat (at [email protected]) by 1 June 2005. Your country profile will provide essential information for the development of the Marine Mammal Action Plan (MMAP) for the Wider Caribbean Region and assist with background information regarding country profiles for the MMAP Workshop to be held in Bridgetown, Barbados, from 18 to 21 July 2005.

NAME OF PARTICIPANT: ______

FUNCTION: ______

CONTRACTING PARTY: ______

Legislation/Mandate

1. Does legislation specifically referring to marine mammals exist in your country or territory? Yes No (Double-click on the relevant box and select “checked” under default value)

If yes, list names and dates of relevant statutes. (box will expand as you type)

2. What (if any) organization(s)/authority(s) is (are) currently responsible for addressing marine mammal issues in your country or territory? Yes No

If yes, list names(s). (box will expand as you type)

Research and Monitoring

3. Which species of marine mammals are known to occur in your waters? Please be specific (i.e. not just ‘dolphins’ or ‘whales’). (box will expand as you type)

Please review attached species list (see Appendix 1). Note whether the species has been sighted, found stranded (alive or dead on beaches), and/or killed.

1 4. Do you have manatee, dolphin or whale watching activities in your country? Yes No

If yes, how are these activities managed? (box will expand as you type)

5. What are the socio-economic benefits of free-ranging marine mammal tourism? Please be specific. Yes No

If yes, explain. (box will expand as you type)

6. Was historical whaling or manatee or dolphin hunting conducted in your waters? Yes No

If yes, until when or still ongoing? (box will expand as you type)

7. Is there evidence that marine mammals are accidentally injured or killed in fisheries in your country? If no, can you confirm that monitoring and reporting would be adequate to indicate if there were? Yes No

If yes, name species and types of fisheries. Entanglements. (box will expand as you type)

Directed catches. (box will expand as you type)

8. Is there currently a marine mammal research and/or conservation programme financed by your government? Yes No

If yes, institution responsible? (box will expand as you type)

2 9. Is there scientific collection of data or specimens from stranded or by-caught marine mammals? Yes No

If yes, list species and latest year(s). (box will expand as you type)

10. Is there an organized stranding network for marine mammals? Yes No

If yes, specify responsible body. (box will expand as you type)

Education and Training

11. Are there marine mammals networks, organizations or programmes in your country to inform people about marine mammals and conservation? Yes No

If yes, name those. (box will expand as you type)

12. Is there a government programme of marine mammal education and outreach? Yes No

If yes, name. (box will expand as you type)

13. Do you have any swim-with-dolphin programme in your country? Yes No

If yes, names and location. (box will expand as you type)

14. Are there captive marine mammal facilities in your country? Yes No ______If yes, How many? (box will expand as you type) 3 Name and location

Management

15. Are Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) established in your country to protect and conserve marine mammals? Yes No

If yes, Please provide names and details. (box will expand as you type)

16. Are Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) established in your country for other purposes but embracing local populations of marine mammals? Yes No

If yes, please provide names and details. (box will expand as you type)

17. Is there trade (import/export) of marine mammals (or marine mammal parts/derivatives such as ivory [teeth], bone or oil) in your country? Yes No

If yes, responsible institution for granting permits. (box will expand as you type)

Community

18. Are non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in your country involved in marine mammal research/management/monitoring/education activities? Yes No

If yes, Name of the NGO: Activity:

4 Any other information that may be relevant is WELCOME!

(box will expand as you type)

THANK YOU FOR YOUR PARTICIPATION AND INPUTS!

5 APPENDIX I: SPECIES LIST OF MARINE MAMMALS OF THE WIDER CARIBBEAN

Please check the appropriate box(es) if species in your territorial waters have been sighted (free-ranging), stranded (found on beaches dead or alive), or target of directed hunt, or any of above.

Order CETACEA Suborder MYSTICETI Sighting Stranding Directed hunt Family BALAENOPTERIDAE The Rorquals Balaenoptera musculus Blue whale Balaenoptera physalus Fin whale Balaenoptera borealis Sei whale Balaenoptera cf. brydei Common Bryde’s whale Balaenoptera acutorostrata Common Minke whale Megaptera novaeangliae Humpback whale

Family BALAENIDAE The Right Whales Eubalaena glacialis North Atlantic right whale

Suborder ODONTOCETI Family PHYSETERIDAE The Sperm Whales Physeter macrocephalus Sperm whale

Family KOGIIDAE The Pygmy and Dwarf Sperm Kogia breviceps Pygmy sperm whale Kogia sima Dwarf sperm whale

Family ZIPHIIDAE The Beaked Whales Ziphius cavirostris Cuvier’s beaked whale Mesoplodon densirostris Blainville’s beaked whale Mesoplodon europaeus Gervais’ beaked whale Mesoplodon bidens Sowerby’s beaked whale Mesoplodon mirus True’s beaked whale

Family DELPHINIDAE The Oceanic Dolphins Sighting Stranding Directed hunt Orcinus orca Killer whale Peponocephala electra Melon-headed whale Feresa attenuata Pygmy killer whale Pseudorca crassidens False killer whale Globicephala macrorhynchus Short-finned pilot whale Steno bredanensis Rough-toothed dolphin Lagenodelphis hosei Fraser’s dolphin Delphinus delphis 1 Short-beaked common dolphin Delphinus capensis1 Long-beaked common dolphin Tursiops truncatus Common bottlenose dolphin Stenella attenuata Pantropical spotted dolphin Stenella frontalis Atlantic spotted dolphin Stenella coeruleoalba Striped dolphin Stenella longirostris Spinner dolphin Stenella clymene Clymene dolphin Grampus griseus Risso’s dolphin Sotalia fluviatilis Tucuxi

Suborder SIRENIA Sighting Stranding Directed hunt

6 Family TRICHECHIDAE Trichechus manatus West Indian manatee

Order CARNIVORA Suborder PINNIPEDIA Family PHOCIDAE Monachus tropicalis 2 West Indian monk seal (extinct) Cystophora cristata3 Hooded seal (extralimital)

Family OTARIIDAE Zalophus californianus California sea lion (introduced)

7 1 Because of recent addition of Delphinus capensis species listing and difficulty in differentiating between previous sighting records of Delphinus delphis, both Delphinus spp. are listed to note the occurrence of separate species, but sightings and strandings are combined and do not differentiate between species. 1 2 Boyd and Standfield (1998) report some indications that monk seals might still survive off Jamaica and Haiti but such reports require confirmation..

3 Extralimital: out of normal range