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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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harbour
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The harbour porpoise is vulnerable to drowning in fishing nets.
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Inshore species, such as the familiar bottle-nosed dolphins, the white-beaked dolphin and the harbour porpoise , rarely strand in large numbers.
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Because it inhabits coastal waters in heavily populated and fished areas, the harbour porpoise has suffered greatly in recent years.
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Now harbour porpoises face the additional threat of coastal gill-nets.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Dusky dolphins and Burmeister's porpoise are considerably more abundant and wide-ranging than the other three species.
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Glancing sideways, he saw Collymore veer off, roll and gracefully arch like a porpoise , and go down again.
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He could do little more than watch porpoises and gulls with them.
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Near Muckla Skerry there was a bit more action: groups of porpoises were puffing their way along.
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Over half the species of toothed whales are dolphins or the closely related porpoises.
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Suddenly three round-headed porpoises came bursting out of the nearly vertical wavefront immediately behind us.
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The dolphins and porpoises are hunted either with hand harpoons or in drive fisheries.
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They got porpoises trained to kill gooks.