Coastal waters of Russia and Ukraine. Surface of 12-mile-wide inshore area along the entire Black Sea coast of Ukraine and Russia.

Cetacean abundance

(a) Study of accumulations, migrations and habitats of the Black Sea bottlenose dolphin in coastal waters of Russia and Ukraine (Afalina-2003); (b) Assessment of the state of Black/Azov Sea marine mammal populations listed in the Red Data Book of Ukraine (MS-2003). Sightings of cetaceans: harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena relicta), common dolphins (Delphinus delphis ponticus) and bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus ponticus). On cruising yacht "Margo".

Birkun A., Jr (2008) The state of cetacean populations. Pp. 365-399 in: State of the Environment of the Black Sea: 2001-2006/7 (Ed. by T. Oguz). BSC Publ., Istanbul, Turkey, 448 p., ; Birkun A., Jr. (2006) Cetaceans (Cetacea). Pp. 314-332 in: Y.P. Zaitsev et al. (Eds.), The North-Western Black Sea: Biology and Ecology. Naukova Dumka, Kiev, 703 p. (In Russian)., ; Birkun A.A., Jr., Krivokhizhin S.V., Glazov D.M., Shpak O.V., Zanin A.V., Mukhametov L.M. (2004) Abundance estimates of cetaceans in coastal waters of the northern Black Sea: Results of boat surveys in August-October 2003. Pp.64-68 in: Marine Mammals of the Holarctic: Collection of Scientific Papers after the 3rd Internat. Conf. (Koktebel, Ukraine, 11-17 October 2004). Moscow, 609 p., ; Birkun A.A., Jr., Krivokhizhin S.V., Glazov D.M., Shpak O.V., Zanin A.V., Mukhametov L.M. (2004) New evidence of population decline: the harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) remains the least abundant cetacean species in the Northen Black Sea. Abstr. 18th Ann. Conf. Europ. Cetacean Soc. (Kolmården, Sweden, 28-31 March 2004). Kolmården., ; Krivokhizhin S.V. (2009) State of cetacean populations in the waters of Ukraine. PhD thesis, Institute of Biology of Southern Seas, Sevastopol, Ukraine. 228 p. (In Russian)., ; Birkun A.A., Jr., Frantzis A. (2008) 2008. Phocoena phocoena ssp. relicta. In: IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>, ; Birkun A.A., Jr. (2008) Delphinus delphis ssp. ponticus. In: IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>, ; Birkun A.A., Jr. (2008) Tursiops truncatus ssp. ponticus. In: IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>, ; Notarbartolo di Sciara G., Birkun A., Jr. (2010) Conserving whales, dolphins and porpoises in the Mediterranean and Black Seas: an ACCOBAMS status report, 2010. ACCOBAMS, Monaco. 212 p.,

Flanders Marine Institute
Jacobsenstraat 1
Oostende

8400
Belgium