Impact of turbot fishery on cetaceans in the Romanian Black Sea area

• Published in: Scientia Marina
• Main Authors: Gheorghe Radu, Eugen Anton
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas 2014
• Subjects: black sea; delphinus delphis ponticus; tursiops truncatus ponticus; phocoena phocoena relicta; gillnets; incidental catches; fishing effort; iuu fishing; cpue values; Aquaculture. Fisheries. Angling; SH1-691; The Beaches; Phocoena phocoena; Turbot
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3989/scimar.04029.27A; https://doaj.org/article/ae61efa65a194f23818d3005bb817593

The abundance of the three species of endemic Black Sea marine mammals represented by Delphinus delphis ponticus (Barabasch-Nikiforov 1935), Tursiops truncatus ponticus (Barabasch-Nikiforov 1940) and Phocoena phocoena relicta (Abel 1905) has shown a dramatic decline due to direct killing practiced i...