. . " G. griseus have been taken periodically in small whale fisheries and as by-catch in other fisheries at Europe, Black Sea, the lesser Antilles, Japan, North America, Peru and some Indo-Pacific islands such as in the Solomon Islands, Indonesia and Sri Lanka (Leatherwood and Reeves 1983, Northridge 1984, Martin 1990, Vidal 19927, Kruse et al. 1999)." . . . . . .