Graham, I. M. et al. Harbour porpoise responses to pile-driving diminish over time. R. Soc. Open Sci. 6, 190335 (2019). The respiration rate was unchanged in two animals, while the four others changed respiration in different ways during exposure compared to the 15 min before exposure, ranging from a 15% decrease (HP4, from 3.9 to 3.3 min −1) to 31% increase (HP3, from 3.2 to 4.2 min −1) (Tables 2, S1). Received level and effect distances Sørensen, T. B. & Kinze, C. C. Reproduction and reproductive seasonality in Danish harbour porpoises, Phocoena phocoena. Ophelia 39(3), 159–176 (1994). Marion Sinclair, chief executive of Publishing Scotland, said: “We are aware of this development. The company was not secret as Adrian Searle had registered a company previously at Companies House. Wild Harbour is the name of the imprint but not the company name."

In her reading of Shepherd’s work in relation to contemporary environmental concerns, Samantha Walton notes an ecological perspective infused with life: ‘Livingness means entanglement and the circulation of all elements, organisms, matter and processes in a natural system.’ 5 Wright, A. J. et al. Possible causes of a harbour porpoise mass stranding in Danish waters in 2005. PLoS ONE 8, e55553 (2013). Calls from the tagged animal often co-occurred with similar calls from conspecifics and the maximum time without the acoustic presence of conspecifics ranged between 22 and 180 minutes (Table 1). Individual recordings had a high percentage of conspecific positive minutes between 9.9% and 58.8% of all one-minute intervals of the total recording time (Table 1). For the two females accompanied by calves and for one juvenile male, the call rate for each tagged animal averaged over six minute bins was significantly correlated with the rate of calls from nearby conspecifics (hp12_293a: p < 0.0002, hp13_102a: p < 0.0002, hp16_264a: p < 0.0322 at 5000 permutations) (Fig. 2b). Validating the functional distinction between buzzes and calls Wild Harbour Cottage is also the name of a cottage that Searle rents out to tourists in the historic harbour village of Pittenweem, in the East Neuk of Fife in Scotland. Curé, C. et al. Biological significance of sperm whale responses to sonar: Comparison with anti-predator responses. Endanger. Species Res. 31, 89–102 (2016).Finley, K. J., Miller, G. W., Davis, R. A. & Greene, C. R. Reaction of Belugas, Delphinapterus leucas, and Narwhals, Monodon monoceros, to ice-breaking ships in the Canadian High Arctic. Can. Bull. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 224, 97–117 (1990). Kindt-Larsen, L., Berg, C. W., Northridge, S. & Larsen, F. Harbor porpoise ( Phocoena phocoena) reactions to pingers. Mar. Mamm. Sci. 35(2), 552–573 (2019).

Larsen, F. & Eigaard, O. R. Acoustic alarms reduce bycatch of harbour porpoises in Danish North Sea gillnet fisheries. Fish. Res. 153, 108–112 (2014). An activity measure, Minimum Specific Acceleration (MSA, m/s 2), was calculated from the 3-axis acceleration data decimated to 25 Hz 46. The 95 percentiles of MSA over 5-s bins were used as a proxy for swimming effort. To detect rapid movements of the tag associated with foraging events and potential acoustic startle responses, jerk (derived acceleration, m/s 3) was computed as the norm of the differential of the triaxial acceleration at a downsampled sampling rate of 25 Hz, following Ydesen et al. 47. The startle muscle flinch was measured by significant peaks in jerk appearing within 0.2 s of receiving the AHD ping (sensu Elmegaard et al. 22). Recordings were made 15 m from the porpoise pen of Fjord&Bælt facility in Kerteminde, Denmark. At the time of the study, this facility kept two adult female harbour porpoises in captivity for research and educational purposes. Both animals were wild-born and brought to the facility after getting accidentally caught in demersal nets in 1997 (porpoise named Freja) and 2004 (porpoise named Sif). The porpoises are kept in a 30 × 20 m pen with large-meshed nets keeping the animals in ambient water conditions year round. The animals receive food during several daily training sessions using positive reinforcement. Specialised caretakers regularly monitor their health, behaviour, and general well-being. The animals are held at the Fjord&Bælt under permit J.nr. SVANA-610-00084, Ministry of Environment and Food, Denmark. All methods were carried out in accordance with relevant guidelines and regulations. This study did not directly involve the animals and used passive monitoring instead, thus no additional permits were required. Data collectionClay TA, Mangel JC, Alfaro-Shigueto J, Hodgson DJ, Godley BJ. Distribution and habitat use of a cryptic small cetacean, the Burmeister’s porpoise, monitored from a small-scale fishery platform. Front Mar Sci. 2018;5:220. I had confirmation my rights would be returned prior to the liquidation but Freight held on to them anyway. Throughout, thepublisher would tell me one thing and do another... I still don't have my rights and have no idea when I will. Nor do I expect to see a single penny of the four-figure sum owed to me. Shambolic doesn't come close." After the company was taken to court over unpaid work by Glasgow-based printing company Bell and Bain Printers, a provisional liquidator was appointed to the company and all employee contracts - including those at Freight Design - were terminated. Previous studies have investigated the reaction of harbour porpoises to nets, demonstrating that both captive [ 48] and wild harbour porpoises [ 34] will avoid nets in a short distance (<100 m). In contrast, the current study shows active foraging activity by harbour porpoises around a bottom-gillnet, while the detection range may be larger than 100m. The behaviour of porpoises is best observed under actual circumstances where bycatches are occurring because environmental factors such as prey availability affect the seasonal and diel occurrence of cetaceans [ 45]. Additional studies at actual fishery grounds are needed to determine the factors governing the incidence of bycatch. Furthermore, it is important to recognise the environmental conditions that affect the behaviour of porpoises, particularly prey distributions and movements.

Larsen F, Eigaard O, Tougaard J. Reduction of harbour porpoise ( Phocoena phocoena) bycatch by iron-oxide gillnets. Fish Res. 2007;85: 270–278. Funding: The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan (MEXT) to a project on Joint Usage/Research Center– Leading Academia in Marine and Environmet Pollution Research (LaMer) http://lamer-cmes.jp/ MATSUISHI Takashi Fritz JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 26450255 https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/ja/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-26450255/ (MATSUISHI Takashi Fritz, AKAMATSU Tomonari) JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 18J30013 https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-18J30013/ (MATSUDA Ayaka) For all the funds above, the funders did not play a role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, nor preparation of the manuscript. Jefferson TA, Curry B. A global review of porpoise (Cetacea: Phocoenidae) mortality in gillnets. Biol Conserv. 1994;67: 167–183. Dawson, S. M. C. and Communication: The behavioural and social contexts of Hector’s Dolphin vocalisations. Ethology 88, 265–276 (1991). Boström MK, Krog C, Kindt-Larsen L, Lunneryd SG, Wahlberg M. Acoustic activity of harbour porpoises ( Phocoena phocoena) around gill nets. Aquat Mamm. 2013;39: 389–396.

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This sense of a prevailing doom continues through even the most idyllic passages in Wild Harbour . Hugh reflects at one point that ‘We were mortal folk, and all our work, all our home-making in the cave, all our happiness on this day of June, though it was sweet, did not divide us from our human fellows nor obliterate their woe’ (p. 91). As Frank Kermode influentially argues, apocalyptic writings are frequently set in the near future, and the movement of time gives us a new perspective that, in his formulation, disconfirms without discrediting them. 3 That is, when an apocalyptic novel is read after the time in which it is set, the reader will be aware that the events described did not take place: in this case, the reader knows that Scotland did not have a ground-force invasion in 1944. Kermode’s argument goes further, to say that this is one of the main reasons for the success, rather than the failure, of such stories: if this apocalypse did not happen, the tale is not invalidated, but rather the apocalypse, paradoxically, remains just as near. There is a double reading to apocalyptic narratives, then: even as we know that the events described are fiction, the threat remains. And it is this double reading that Macpherson captures so well not only in the historical setting of the novel but in its action. Hugh and Terry are positioned, for much of the novel, as if the apocalypse has passed them by, but that does not provide peace, only a sense that it is always about to arrive. Schaffeld, T. et al. The use of seal scarers as a protective mitigation measure can induce hearing impairment in harbour porpoises. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 146, 4288–4298 (2019).