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Перевод: porpoise speek porpoise


[существительное]
морская свинья; бурый дельфин;
[глагол]
подпрыгивать; козлить


Тезаурус:

  1. Before 1989, dolphin and porpoise hunting in Japan was unregulated, and from 1981 catches rose steadily so that by 1987 over 21,000 animals were reported taken for human consumption, and the following year officially reported numbers had risen again to over 25,000.
  2. The last-swimming oceanic Dall's porpoise is a popular food item and has been a favourite target of Japanese harpoons in the province of Iwate (north-eastern Honshu) for many years.
  3. A 120 kg (260 lb) Dall's porpoise, a fast-swimming and deep-diving species, consumed 15 kg (3 lb) of fish daily without increasing its weight while held in captivity in California - equivalent to a human eating 7-;10 kg (15-;22 lb) of steak in a day.
  4. The Scientific Committee had in previous years expressed concern about the Dall's porpoise harpoon fishery, fearing that even the much smaller annual catch may not have been sustainable, since Japanese scientists had calculated a replacement rate of only about 5000 porpoises each year.
  5. The bottlenose dolphin has an average ratio of 40 to 1, the dusky dolphin about 35 to 1, and Dall's porpoise about 26 to 1, suggesting that dolphins generally show a degree of intelligence comparable with that of humans.
  6. Kasuya's fears proved to be well founded, and he dropped a bombshell at the 1989 meeting of the IWC's Scientific Committee, when he revealed to the Small Cetaceans Subcommittee the staggering increase in the number of Dall's porpoise killed in the harpoon fishery based on Iwate Prefecture.
  7. At the same IWC meeting, Kasuya tabled a paper which estimated the abundance of Dall's porpoise in the harpoon fishery area to be no greater than 105,000.
  8. She describes how a porpoise appeared and guided her so that she was being carried with the tide, and then helped her to a section of shallow water.
  9. In a single year the unregulated Japanese hunt had killed almost half the local porpoise population.
  10. THE DESTRUCTION OF DALL'S PORPOISE
  11. Such half-hearted measures, however, are unlikely to significantly reduce porpoise catches before the stocks collapse.
  12. Between 1977 and 1981, the season For hunting Dall's porpoise Increased from 4 months to 10 months, and in 1987 the number of boats hunting the dolphins and porpoises in the area increased from 200 to 350.
  13. By even a conservative estimate, about 10,000 Dall's porpoise were harpooned each year from 1976 to 1987.

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