Mortality of small cetaceans in fishing nets is high in Peruvian waters. An unknown number of large and small cetaceans are taken incidentally in the gillnet swordfish fishery in Chilean waters. Some tens to a few hundred dolphins and porpoises die every year off S Chile in an expanding coastal gillnet fishery for ratfish and sciaenids. Scanty information from Ecuador suggests that a few hundred animals may get entangled in fishing nets every year. -from Authors