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THE INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH ..
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History) coordinated the field work while
R. Mouritsen (Department of Fisheries,
Faroese Govemment) was responsible for
all technical aspects of the sampling. K.
Hoydal, Director of the Fisheries
Department of the Faroese Govemment,
was responsible for the project and its fund-
ing on the govemmental level. From the
outset, ten main institutes from six coun-
tries were involved in the programme, and
limited sets of samples were collected for
other laboratories in different countries.
The 10 institutes involved were:
Faroese Museum of Natural History,
Tórshavn, Faroe Islands.
Age determination and age-related
parameters.
Morphological characters.
Population estimate.
Stock identity.
Reproductive parameters and repro-
ductive rates, sexual cycles.
Social structure.
Feeding ecology.
Department of Fisheries, Faroese
Government, Tórshavn, Faroe Islands.
Long-term analysis of catch series.
Institute of Natural Science, University
of the Faroe Islands and Institute of
Ecology and Genetics, University of
Aarhus, Denmark.
Genetic variability.
Stock identity and population stmc-
ture.
Karyological analysis.
Long-term analysis of catch series.
Center for Titration of Trace Elements,
University of Pharmacy, Nantes, France.
Heavy metal contamination and
mother-offspring transfer.
Transfer through the food chain.
Biochemical and physiological
aspects of the contamination.
Center for Biological Studies on Wild
Animals (CEBAS), National Center for
Scientific Research (CNRS), France.
Cyclical changes in sexual activity
by means of hormonal titration.
Sea Mammal Research Unit (SMRU),
British Antarctic Survey - Cambridge,
England.
Assessment of body condition,
bioenergetics, growth.
Experimentation on age determina-
tion.
Mortality and survivorship.
Reproductive rates.
Distribution of pilot whales by
satellite telemetry tagging for
longterm tracking of individuals.
Department of Genetics - Cambridge
University, England.
Patemity and mating systems.
Department of Animal Biology and
Parasitology, University of Valencia,
Spain.
Parasite fauna composition.
Age-related evolution of various
infestations.
Parasitic pathologies.