Abundance and conservation status of the Yangtze finless porpoise in the Yangtze River, China

By Xiujiang Zhao, Jay Barlow, B. Taylor, R. Pitman, Ke‐Xiong Wang, Zhuo Wei, Brent S. Stewart, S. Turvey, T. Akamatsu, R. Reeves and 1 more. 2008

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Can local ecological knowledge be used to assess status and extinction drivers in a threatened freshwater cetacean (2013, unknown): “The 6week boat-based porpoise survey in autumn 2006 detected an apparent 150 km gap in porpoise distribution in the Yangtze mainstem in sections 2–3 (Zhao et al., 2008).”
Disappearing giants: a review of threats to freshwater megafauna (2017, background): “asiaeorientalis) is subject to incidental by-catch in gillnets.(87) In the Caspian Sea region, by-catch in legal and illegal fisheries may cause the death of several thousand Caspian Seals each year, representing a significant level of mortality for this threatened species in addition to intentional”
Accelerating population decline of Yangtze finless porpoise (Neophocaena asiaeorientalis asiaeorientalis) (2012, methodology): “: +86 27 68780178; fa E-mail addresses: pandameizhigang@gmail.com gmail.com (S.-L. Huang), hao.yj@ihb.ac.cn (Y. Ha (S.T. Turvey), gongwm@163.com (W. Gong), wangd@ The Yangtze finless porpoise (Neophocaena asiaeorientalis asiaeorientalis) is now the only cetacean species in the Yangtze River followin”
The Yangtze finless porpoise: On an accelerating path to extinction? (2014, methodology): “The sightings of Yangtze finless porpoises were located and identified by previously trained and highly experienced on-board observers (some of whom had participated in the YFDE2006 census).”