Editing Porpoise (section)

====Hunting====
[[File:FMIB 35846 Porpoise Fishery.jpeg|thumb|Traditional catch of [[harbour porpoise]] by lancing in [[Bay of Fundy]]]]
Porpoises and other smaller cetaceans have traditionally been hunted in many areas, at least in Asia, Europe and North America, for their meat and blubber. A dominant hunting technique is drive hunting, where a pod of animals is driven together with boats and usually into a bay or onto a beach. Their escape is prevented by closing off the route to the ocean with other boats or nets. This type of fishery for [[harbour porpoise]]s is best documented from the [[Danish straits]], where it occurred until the end of the 19th century (it was banned in 1899), and again during the shortages in [[World War I]] and [[World War II]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Petersen |first1=Åge |title=Marsvin og marsvinjægere |date=1969 |publisher=Middelfart By- og Egnshistoriske Museum |location=Middelfart, Denmark}}</ref> The [[Inuit]] in the Arctic hunt harbour porpoises by shooting and drive hunt for [[Dall's porpoise]] still takes place in Japan. The number of individuals taken each year is in the thousands, although a quota of around 17,000 per year is in effect today<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Jefferson |first1=TA |last2=Braulik |first2=G |title=''Phocoenoides dalli'' |url=https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/17032/50370912 |journal=IUCN Red List of Threatened Species|date=22 March 2017 }}</ref> making it the largest direct hunt of any [[cetacean]] species in the world<ref name="smm">{{cite web |title=''Phocoenoides dalli'' (Dall's porpoise, Dall porpoise) |url=https://www.marinemammalscience.org/facts/phocoenoides-dalli/ |website=The Society for Marine Mammalogy}}</ref> and the sustainability of the hunt has been questioned.<ref name="IWChunt">{{cite journal |title=Report of the Sub-Committee on Small Cetaceans |journal=International Whaling Commission |date=2008}}</ref><ref name="smm2">{{cite web |last1=Wells |first1=RS |title=Letter to Japanese Government Regarding Dolphin and Small Whale Hunts |url=https://www.marinemammalscience.org/letters/letter-to-japanese-government-regarding-dolphin-and-small-whale-hunts/ |website=The Society for Marine Mammalogy|date=29 May 2012 }}</ref>