“…This network monitors systematically, but not uniformly, 2437km of coastline. Through this network, 71 strandings of bottlenose dolphins were reported along the northeast coast between 1992 and 2010: Ceará (n = 13), Rio Grande do Norte (n = 14), Paraíba (n = 2), Pernambuco (n = 24), Alagoas (n = 2) and Bahia (n = 16) (Alves-Júnior et al, 1996;Meirelles et al, 2009;2016 this volume Santos et al, 2006).…”