asphyxia – Kaspika

Kaspika

Caspian Seals Conservation Agency

A dead Caspian seal, the Dagestan coast, December 2020.

Death in trawls

30/12/202006/11/2025 Kaspika 0 Comment asphyxia, asphyxiation, Caspian seal, Caspian sprat, commercial fishing, Dagestan, kilka, mass mortality, trawl, trawl vessels

‘It was trawl fishing that caused strandings of dead seals,’ says Ernest Gamzatov, an ecologist from Dagestan. The captains of fishing vessels

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Scientists from Moscow are finding out reasons for the death of Caspian seals

Scientists from Moscow are finding out reasons for the death of seals

10/12/202008/10/2021 Kaspika 0 Comment asphyxia, Dagestan, death of seals, Kaspika, Makhachkala, Phoca caspica, Pusa caspica, the Caspian, the Caspian Sea, the Caspian seal

On the Caspian coast, several dozen dead seals have been found (the species are listed in the Red Data Book

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