Waters (surface about 4000 km2 in total) close to the western (Evpatoria), southern (Sevastopol) and south-eastern (Feodosia) coasts of Cri

Cetacean abundance

Cetaceans incidentally caught in bottom-set gillnets: harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena relicta) and bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus ponticus). Occasional collecting of cetacean carcasses and by-catch data from fishermen (1997-1998); monthly onboard surveying of fishing operations (2006-2009).

Birkun A., Jr. (2008) Cetacean-fisheries conflicts in the Black Sea Region. International Workshop on Cetacean Bycatch within the ACCOBAMS Area (Rome, Italy, 17-18 September 2008). Working paper, 22 p. (Unpublished)., ; Birkun A., Jr.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. (2005) Bottom-set gillnet fisheries and harbour porpoises in the Black Sea: High-tech against cetaceans. FINS (Newsletter of ACCOBAMS) 2(1): 10., ; Birkun A., Jr. (2002) Interactions between cetaceans and fisheries in the Black Sea. In: G. Notarbartolo di Sciara (Ed.), Cetaceans of the Mediterranean and Black Seas: state of knowledge and conservation strategies. A report to the ACCOBAMS Secretariat, Monaco, February 2002. Section 10, 11 p., ; Birkun A., Jr., Krivokhizhin S., Masberg I., Radygin G. (2009) Cetacean by-catches in the course of turbot and spiny dogfish fisheries in the northwestern Black Sea. P.15-16 in: Abstr. 23rd Ann. Conf. Europ. Cetacean Soc. (Istanbul, Turkey, 2–4 March 2009). Istanbul, Turkey, 194 p., ; Birkun A., Jr. (2009) Plastic waste cause fishing nets to kill more Black Sea marine mammals. FINS (Newsletter of ACCOBAMS) 4(2): 17-18.,

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