Good practice guides

You wish to develop a stranding network on your territory, or strengthen it? You will find bellow:

• Some recommendations drafted by the SPAW RAC in 2007, following some workshops conducted in the region, and by the IWC in 2016:

SPAW RAC (2007) Protocoles and techniques for responding to strandings
IWC (2016) Report of an IWC Workshop Developing Practical Guidance for the Handling of Cetacean Stranding Events. IWC/66/WKM&WI Rep02

• Some stranding guides in:

English:

ACCOBAMS & ASCOBANS (2019) Best practice on cetacean post mortem nvestigation and tissue sampling.

Geraci JR & Loundsbury VJ (1993) Marine Mammals Ashore: A field guide for strandings.

IWDG (2017) IWDG Face to face with a beached whale - guidelines for the welfare of live stranded cetaceans.

Pugliares et al. (2007) Marine mammal necropsy.

Ward N, Bogomolni A, Potter C (2013) A stranding guide to the marine mammals of the Wider Caribbean Region.

Van Canneyt O, Dabin W, Dars C, Dorémus G, Gonzalez L, Ridoux V, Spitz J (2015) Guide to marine mammal strandings. Technical booklet of the Observatoire PELAGIS.

Spanish:

Junta de Andalucía (2017) Manual de atencion a varamientos del litoral Andaluz.

Aragones LV, et al. (2013) Philippine Marine mammal stranding response manual.

Ministerio del Ambiente (2018) Protocolo de Respuesta a Varamientos de Especies Marinas en Ecuador.

Santos Calderón JM, Murillo Urrutia LG, Botero López CA, Ramirez Martínez A (2017) Guia para la atención de varamientos de mamíferos acuaticos en Colombia

French:

Van Canneyt O, Dabin W, Dars C, Dorémus G, Gonzalez L, Ridoux V, Spitz J (2015) Guide des échouages de mammifères marins. Cahier technique de l’Observatoire PELAGIS sur le suivi de la mégafaune marine.

• And finally, here are two websites where you can find more documentation and information on marine mammal stranding response:

The Global Marine Animal Stranding Toolkit
The global stranding network website