Mundo Azul

Tursiops truncatus (Montagu, 1821)
Bottlenose dolphin

Conservation Status:

Listed in Annex 2 (threatened species) of the International Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES);
Listed in Annex C1 (strictly protected) of Regulation 3626/82 of the European Union;
Protected by the US Marine Mammals Protection Act (MMPA) and declared a "diminished species" (a species whose population is smaller than it should be in order to be considered healthy);
Listed by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as a species of which "insufficient information" is available;
Protected in Peru since 1990

Distribution in Peru:

Along the entire coastline

Present threats:

Capture for live exhibition all around he world;
Hunting off the coasts of Japan, Sri Lanka, Western Africa, Antillas, Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Santa Helena, Saint Vicent and Grenadines, Saint Lucia, Indonesia,
Illegal hunting for human consumption in Peru.
By-catch in surface-drift gillnets to target a pelagic schooling fish called cojinova (Seriolella violacea). Total by-catch can not be quantified but in one study in the port of San Juan in southern Peru between November 1991 and June 1998 observed the landings of 75 bottlenose dolphins was observed. It was found that the probability of a fishing vessel capturing a porpoise increased when drift gillnets were used instead of fixed gillnets