commercial sprat fishing – Kaspika

Kaspika

Caspian Seals Conservation Agency

The mass death of Caspian seals, the Caspian Sea, Dagestan.

Military drills, pollution or trawling?

18/04/202117/09/2021 Kaspika 0 Comment asphyxia, asphyxiation, commercial sprat fishing, Dagestan, Kaspika, kilka, Makhachkala, mass mortality of Caspian seals, Phoca caspica, Port-Petrovsk, Pusa caspica, the Caspian Sea, the Caspian seal, the Caspian sprat, the common sprat, the Marine Mammal Council, trawl, trawl vessels

It was trawl fishing that caused the death of seals, says Dagestan ecologist Ernest Gamzatov. The captains of fishing vessels

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Dead seals on the Dagestan coast of the Caspian Sea, December 2020.

Caspian seals died in trawls and fishing nets

29/12/202016/01/2021 Kaspika 0 Comment asphyxiation, commercial sprat fishing, Dagestan, fishing net, IPEE RAS, IUCN Red List, Kaliningrad fishermen, Kaspika, Marine Mammal Council, mass mortality of Caspian seals, Moskvarium, Phoca caspica, Pusa caspica, the Caspian, the Caspian kilka, the Caspian Sea, the Caspian seal, the common kilka, trawl, trawl vessels

2020 finally threw another ecological DISASTER – THREE HUNDRED (!) dead Caspian seals were found on the coast of Dagestan.

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