| List of species in SPAW annex II |
Estimate of population size |
Comments if any |
| Mammals: Balaenoptera edeni |
not given |
Ship strikes
Accidental capture in fishing gear
Accidental capture in fishing gear abandoned (waste, wrecks, etc ...)
direct takes
maritime traffic
Oil pollution and chemical components
Chronic noise pollution
Disturbance by the activities of whale watching |
| Mammals: Megaptera novaeangliae |
not given |
Habitat: shoals of sand, near the islands
Reproduction: Arc of Northern Caribbean and the Dominican Republic in winter
Food: Small fish (herring, capelin and Greenland halibut) and krill caught near the surface of 60 to 120m depth alone or in cooperation with other individuals.
General threats
(Source: IUCN): Aboriginal Subsistence Whaling in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (4 individuals / year)
Aboriginal whaling by the West Greenland Inuit (8 individuals / year)
Ship strikes
Accidental capture in fishing gear
Oil pollution and the chemical components
Chronic noise pollution
Disturbance by the activities of whale watching |
| Mammals: Balaenoptera acutostrata |
not given |
HABITAT:
Coastal waters and High Seas
FOOD:
A variety of prey but mostly of krill and small fish (opportunistic depending on the season and prey availability)
REPRODUCTION
Minke whales in the North Atlantic is sexually mature at the age of 7 for females and 6 for males. Breeding occurs between October and March. Gestation lasts between 10 and 11 months, parturition occurs between November and March. Reproduction Bermuda, Bahamas / Caribbean during the winter
Threats or potential:
Fishery by Iceland, Norway, Russia and Japan
Accidental capture in fishing gear (200 / year on the Japan Sea and South China Sea)
Chronic noise pollution |
| Mammals: Physeter macrocephalus |
not given |
Habitat: Deep waters
Food: squid in deep water
Habitat for mating: Water above 15 °
general threats
(Source: IUCN): Collision with vessels
Accidental capture in fishing gear in particular because of the phenomen of predation
Accidental capture in fishing gear abandoned (waste, wrecks, etc ...)
Ingestion of debris
maritime traffic
Chronic noise pollution
Disturbance by the activities of whale watching |
| Mammals: Kogia breviceps |
not given |
Habitat: Beyond the shelf edge
Food: Cephalopods, fish and shrimp in deep water
General threats
(Source: IUCN): Incidental capture in fishing gear
Accidental capture in fishing gear abandoned (waste, wrecks, etc ...)
Ingestion of debris
Oil pollution and chemical components
Chronic noise pollution (significant stranding in Taiwan, Gulf of Mexico, Atlantic Coast, Florida). |
| Mammals: Kogia simus |
not given |
Habitat : waters off the tropical coasts and warm temperate areas
Food : mainly cephalopods and other prey in deep waters
General threats
(Source: IUCN) Spear fishing times in the Lesser Antilles (St. Vincent)
Accidental capture in fishing gear (rare)
Accidental capture in fishing gear abandoned (waste, wrecks, etc ...) (rare)
Ingestion of debris
Oil pollution and chemical components
Acute or chronic noise pollution (significant stranding in Taiwan, Gulf of Mexico, Atlantic Coast, Florida). |
| Mammals: Ziphius cavirostris |
not given |
HABITAT:
Deep waters more than 200 meters, rarely near the coast except deepwater
FOOD:
Fish, squid, crustaceans
Ascertain or potential threats:
Bycatch in fisheries of the Caribbean Islands
Incidental capture in fishing gear (tangle)
Incidental capture in fishing gear abandoned |
| Mammals: Mesoplodon europeaus |
not given |
Habitat: Deep temperate waters, subtropical and tropical
Food: Squid, crustacean larvae
General threats
(Source: IUCN): Incidental capture in fishing gear
Accidental capture in fishing gear abandoned
Sensitive to acute and chronic noise (strandings)
Ingestion of plastic waste |
| Mammals: Mesoplodon densirostris |
not given |
Habitat: temperate and tropical waters between 200 and 1000 meters depth.
Food: Fish, squid
General threats (source IUCN):
Incidental capture in fishing gear
Accidental capture in fishing gear abandoned
Sensitive to acute and chronic noise (strandings)
Ingestion of plastic waste |
| Mammals: Orcinus orca |
not given |
Habitat: All habitats of high productivity
Food: Marine mammals of small and large sizes, seabirds, turtles e sea, many fish species, cephalopods
General threats
(Source: IUCN):
Hunting by the Coastal Fisheries in the Caribbean islands
Accidental capture in fishing gear (trawl, net, squid fishery, gillnets, driftnets)
Sensitive to pollutants because of their high trophic position
Sensitive to acute and chronic noise
Inventory reduction of food supply
Phenomena depredations |
| Mammals: Feresa attenuata |
not given |
Food: Cephalopods, fish, sometimes attacks the dolphins
Habitat: Deep and warm waters, rarely near the coast with the exception of deep and clear water
General threats:
(Source: IUCN)
Spear fishing in the Caribbean
Accidental capture in fishing gear (purse seines for tuna, gillnets, driftnets, longlines)
Vulnerable to anthropogenic loud sounds (sonar, seismic exploration)
Ingestion of waste plastic and in particular
Pollution: There have been reports on the presence of oil residues, including DDT, dieldrin and PCBs in various tissues of three pygmy killer whales in the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of Florida (Ross and Leatherwood, 1994 ). |
| Mammals: Pseudorca crassidens |
not given |
Habitat: temperate and tropical waters
Food: Fish, cephalopods, small cetaceans, listed attacks of humpback and sperm whales, dolphin dorado, tuna, marlin ...
General threats
(Source: IUCN):
Hunting in the coastal fisheries in the waters of St. Vincent
Accidental capture in fishing gear
Sensitive to acute and chronic noise
Inventory reduction of food supply
Ingestion of plastic waste
Phenomena of depredation |
| Mammals: Globicephala macrorhynchus |
not given |
Habitat: Deep and warm waters, rarely near the coast with the exception of deep water
Food: mainly cephalopods, fish. In southern California, the seasonal abundance of pilot whales appears to be correlated with the seasonal abundance of breeding squid.
General threats:
(Source: IUCN)
Harpooning in St. Vincent (approx 220 individuals: year) and St. Lucia (Bernard and Reilly, 1999).
Accidental capture in fishing gear (purse seines for tuna, gillnets, driftnets, longlines) in the Caribbean, off Puerto Rico, U.S. and British Virgin Islands (Mignucci et al. 1999).
Accidental capture in fishing gear abandoned
Vulnerable to anthropogenic loud sounds (sonar, seismic exploration)
collision |
| Mammals: Peponocephala electra |
not given |
Habitat: Continental shelf and around oceanic islands, near the coast in deep water
Food: squid, shrimp and small fish
General threats
(Source: IUCN):
Hunting by coastal fisheries in the waters of St. Vincent
Accidental capture in fishing gear (purse seine for tuna, trawl net, squid fishery, gillnets, driftnets)
Sensitive to acute and chronic noise
Inventory reduction of food supply
Ingestion of plastic waste |
| Mammals: Lagenodelphis hosei |
not given |
Habitat: Deep waters offshore and near shore
Food : pelagic (especially myctophids), squids and crustaceans up to 600 m and on the surface
General threats (Source: IUCN):
Harpooning in the Lesser Antilles
Accidental capture in fishing gear (purse seines for tuna, squid fishery, gillnets, driftnets)
Vulnerable to anthropogenic loud sounds (sonar, seismic exploration) and pollution |
| Mammals: Stenella attenuata |
not given |
Habitat: Depth - 50 meters and water at 25 °
Food: Small fish, flying fish and live fish on the bottom
General threats
(Source: IUCN):
Fishing in St. Vincent (harpoons and gillnets)
Accidental capture in fishing gear (purse seines, gillnets, driftnets, longlines) important source of mortality or abandoned |
| Mammals: Stenella frontalis |
not given |
Habitat: High tropical seas, temperate deep water close to shore and shallow waters sometimes
Food: A wide variety of fish, squid and benthic invertebrates mesopelagic
General threats (Source: IUCN):
Incidental capture in fishing gear (purse seines, gillnets, driftnets, longlines)
Exploitation of commercial fish and cephalopods as part of its diet |
| Mammals: Stenella longirostris |
not given |
Habitat: coastal tropical waters of islands or reefs, deep sea and shallow bays to rest sometimes
Food: Feed especially at night, small fish, squid and shrimp
General threats
(Source: IUCN):
Incidental capture in fishing gear (purse seines, gillnets, driftnets, longlines) and / or littering
Fishery in the Caribbean
Disturbance by whale watching during resting periods |
| Mammals: Stenella clymene |
not given |
Habitat: Tropical and subtropical deep water offshore or near shore.
Food: Small fish and squid
General threats
(Source: IUCN):
Harpooning in St. Vincent,
Accidental capture in fishing gear (gill nets, purse seines) |
| Mammals: Tursiops truncatus |
not given |
HABITAT:
Coastal and pelagic waters.
FOOD: Fish, cephalopods, squid, shrimp, crustaceans.
Ascertain or potential threats:
Accidental capture in fishing gear (purse seine and rotary for tuna net, gill nets and drift longlines) - Incidental capture in fishing gear abandoned
Capture targeted for hunting, exposure to the public
Sensitive to noise acute and chronic, pollution due to its coastal habitat
inventory reduction of food supply due to overfishing and loss / degradation of its habitat
Ingestion of plastic waste |
| Mammals: Stenella coeruleoalba |
not given |
Habitat: High tropical seas, temperate regions with deep water near the coasts
Food: Wide variety of pelagic or benthopelagic (200 to 700 m)
General threats
(Source: IUCN):
Fishing in St. Vincent (harpoons and gillnets)
Accidental capture in fishing gear (purse seines, gillnets, driftnets, longlines) important source of mortality
Sensitive to pollution by oil and chemical components
Exploitation of commercial fish and cephalopods as part of its diet
|
| Mammals: Grampus griseus |
not given |
Abundance: In the northern Gulf of Mexico, the estimate of the abundance of Risso's dolphins in oceanic waters, from 1996 to 2001, is around 2169 (CV = 0.32) (Mullin and Fulling 2004).
Habitat: Deep waters of the continental and oceanic slopes ; 400 to 1000 meters deep and sometimes shallow waters
Food: squid, cephalopods and crustaceans sometimes (at night)
General threats (Source: IUCN): Incidental capture in fishing gear (purse seines for tuna, squid fishery, gillnets, driftnets, longlines).
Vulnerable to anthropogenic loud sounds (sonar, seismic exploration).
Ingestion of plastic waste, ropes, cans |
| Mammals: Steno bredanensis |
not given |
Habitat: deep tropical coastal waters of islands or reefs and shallow waters
Power: Cephalopods, fish large and small sizes
General threats
(Source: IUCN):
Harpooning in St. Vincent
Accidental capture in fishing gear (purse seines for tuna, gillnets, driftnets, longlines)
Fishery in the Caribbean
Disturbance by whale watching |
