24th ASCOBANS Advisory Committee Meeting AC24/Inf.9.0 Vilnius, 25 -27 September 2018 Dist. 19 September 2018 Agenda Item 9 Cooperation with other Bodies Document Inf.9.0 LUTRA North Sea Cetacean Special Action Requested • Take note Submitted by LUTRA NOTE: DELEGATES ARE KINDLY REMINDED TO BRING THEIR OWN COPIES OF DOCUMENTS TO THE MEETING Secretariat’s Note The Rules of Procedure adopted at the ASCOBANS 8th Meeting of Parties remain in force until and unless an amendment is called for and adopted. Volume Deel 61 - Number Nummer 1 – September 2018 LUTRA Journal of the Dutch Mammal Society Contents Inhoud Volume 61 – Number 1 – September 2018 1 Preface Peter G.H. Evans, Carl Chr. Kinze & Graham J. Pierce North Sea Cetacean Special 3 North Sea cetacean research since the 1960s: advances and gaps Peter G.H. Evans 15 Chris Smeenk, 1942-2017 Sim Broekhuizen, Kees Camphuysen, Bauke Hoekstra & Vincent van Laar 29 Review of sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) strandings around the North Sea Chris Smeenk & Peter G.H. Evans 71 Analysis of historical and recent diet and strandings of sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) in the North Sea Graham J. Pierce, Natalie Ward, Andrew Brownlow & M. Begoña Santos 87 Cetacean stranding records along the Danish coastline: records for the period 2008-2017 and a comparative review Carl Chr. Kinze, Charlotte B. Thøstesen & Morten T. Olsen 107 Strandings of cetaceans in Belgium from 1995 to 2017 Jan Haelters, Francis Kerckhof & Thierry Jauniaux 127 Abundance of harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) on the Dutch Continental Shelf, aerial surveys 2012-2017 Steve C.V. Geelhoed & Meike Scheidat 137 Feeding behaviour of harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) in the Ems estuary Sam M.H. Weel, Steve C.V Geelhoed, Ingrid Tulp & Meike Scheidat 153 Spatiotemporal trends in white-beaked dolphin strandings along the North Sea coast from 1991–2017 Lonneke L. IJsseldijk, Andrew Brownlow, Nicholas J. Davison, Rob Deaville, Jan Haelters, Guido Keijl, Ursula Siebert & Mariel T.I. ten Doeschate 165 From nought to 100 in no time: how humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) came into the southern North Sea Mardik F. Leopold, Elske Rotshuizen & Peter G.H. Evans 189 A case for Tursiops tursio (Gunnerus, 1768) Carl Chr. Kinze 197 A chronological review of the nomenclature of Delphinus rostratus Shaw, 1801 and Delphinus bredanensis (Lesson, 1828) Chris Smeenk Printed by Veldhuis Media BV, Raalte Layout by Image Realize, New Zealand ISSN 0024-7634 Lutra_61_1_Cover_v3.indd 1 12/09/2018 20:42 Volume Deel 61 - Number Nummer 1 – September 2018 LUTRA Journal of the Dutch Mammal Society Contents Inhoud Volume 61 – Number 1 – September 2018 1 Preface Peter G.H. Evans, Carl Chr. Kinze & Graham J. Pierce North Sea Cetacean Special 3 North Sea cetacean research since the 1960s: advances and gaps Peter G.H. Evans 15 Chris Smeenk, 1942-2017 Sim Broekhuizen, Kees Camphuysen, Bauke Hoekstra & Vincent van Laar 29 Review of sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) strandings around the North Sea Chris Smeenk & Peter G.H. Evans 71 Analysis of historical and recent diet and strandings of sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) in the North Sea Graham J. Pierce, Natalie Ward, Andrew Brownlow & M. Begoña Santos 87 Cetacean stranding records along the Danish coastline: records for the period 2008-2017 and a comparative review Carl Chr. Kinze, Charlotte B. Thøstesen & Morten T. Olsen 107 Strandings of cetaceans in Belgium from 1995 to 2017 Jan Haelters, Francis Kerckhof & Thierry Jauniaux 127 Abundance of harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) on the Dutch Continental Shelf, aerial surveys 2012-2017 Steve C.V. Geelhoed & Meike Scheidat 137 Feeding behaviour of harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) in the Ems estuary Sam M.H. Weel, Steve C.V Geelhoed, Ingrid Tulp & Meike Scheidat 153 Spatiotemporal trends in white-beaked dolphin strandings along the North Sea coast from 1991–2017 Lonneke L. IJsseldijk, Andrew Brownlow, Nicholas J. Davison, Rob Deaville, Jan Haelters, Guido Keijl, Ursula Siebert & Mariel T.I. ten Doeschate 165 From nought to 100 in no time: how humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) came into the southern North Sea Mardik F. Leopold, Elske Rotshuizen & Peter G.H. Evans 189 A case for Tursiops tursio (Gunnerus, 1768) Carl Chr. Kinze 197 A chronological review of the nomenclature of Delphinus rostratus Shaw, 1801 and Delphinus bredanensis (Lesson, 1828) Chris Smeenk Printed by Veldhuis Media BV, Raalte Layout by Image Realize, New Zealand ISSN 0024-7634 Lutra_61_1_Cover_v3.indd 1 12/09/2018 20:42 Instructions to authors Volume Deel 61 – Number Nummer 1 – September 2018 When you prepare a manuscript for Lutra please comply with tabs here. Please provide the full name of a jour- Lutra is a scientific journal published by the Dutch Mammal Society (Zoogdier vereniging). The society is dedicated with the guidelines set out below. For additional informa- nal. For books only name the first location if a pub- to the study and protection of native mammals in Europe. Lutra publishes peer-reviewed scientific papers on mam- tion on style and format please consult a recent issue and lisher has offices in more than one city. 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