Mundo Azul

Phocoena spinipinnis (Burmeister, 1865)
Burmeisters porpoise
Tonino, Marsopa espinosa

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);
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:	Historic threats:
Along the entire coast	One of the species caught for human consumption in Peru.

Present threats:

Illegal hunting in Peru (for human consumption) and Chile.
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 214 Burmeister's porpoises 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.