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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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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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Nataliya R. Shumeiko, an employee of IPEE RAS, Head of Kaspika Caspian Seals Conservation Agency. Photo by Irina Suvorova.

IPEE RAS Expedition Returned from Dagestan

22/12/202004/08/2022 Kaspika 0 Comment CIBR DSC RAS, Dagestan, IPEE RAS, Kaspika, mass mortality, Moskvarium, Phoca caspica, Pusa caspica, the Caspian, the Caspian Sea, the Caspian seal, VNIRO.

The IPEE RAS expedition has returned from the Dagestan coast of the Caspian Sea with collected materials to find out the reasons for the mass

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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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Каспийский тюлень. Махачкала, Дагестан.

Deceased in fishing net. Why is the coast of the Caspian Sea in dead seals?

01/06/202015/11/2024 Kaspika 0 Comment Dagestan, Dagestan State University, DGU, Kaspika, Makhachkala, Phoca caspica, poachers, poaching, poaching nets, Pusa caspica, the Caspian, the Caspian Sea, the Caspian seal

“This morning is hardly said to be good. There are corpses all over the shore in the Reductorny village” –

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The photo by Dmitri Glazov: Nataliya Shumeyko. The international expedition. The Northern Caspian, February, 2019.

The Caspian seal is in the Dagestan Red Book!

12/05/201919/05/2019 Kaspika 0 Comment Dagestan, Kaspika, Phoca caspica, Pusa caspica, the Caspian, the Caspian Sea, the Caspian seal, The Red Book, The Red Book of Dagestan, the Republic of Dagestan

Finally! It has finally happened. Perennial, desperate and seeming more hopeless efforts have brought their results. On April 12, the

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The Caspian Sea coat, Dagestan

The Caspian Octopus

27/03/201815/04/2018 Kaspika 2 Comments black caviar, Dagestan, Kaspika, sturgeon caviar, sturgeon poaching, the Astrakhan Region, the Border Service of FSS Russia, the Caspian Sea

The Caspian Octopus is a documentary film shown recently on the First Channel in Russia. It was filmed several years ago, but the

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Sturgeon poaching, Dagestan

More than 1 ton of sturgeon was seized from a poacher

17/10/201701/04/2018 Kaspika 0 Comment border guards, Dagestan, Kaspika, poachers, poaching, sturgeon, sturgeon poaching, the Caspian, the Caspian Sea

Employees of the Border Department of Dagestan FSS seized an illegal batch of sturgeon. A truck going to Moscow was stopped by traffic

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Poaching under the protection of officials

14/10/201717/01/2018 Kaspika 0 Comment beluga, Dagestan, Federal Security Service, Kaspika, Kazakhstan, poachers, poaching, stellate sturgeon, sturgeon, the Caspian, the Caspian Sea, the Caspian seal

In Dagestan, Federal Security Service officers detained a large gang of poachers, who worked under the protection of officials and law enforcement

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Sturgeon poaching, Chechen Island, Dagestan

Caspian seal furs and sturgeons were confiscated on Chechen Island

14/06/201703/03/2018 Kaspika 0 Comment border guards, Caspian seal fur, Dagestan, Kaspika, Phoca caspica, poachers, poaching, Pusa caspica, sturgeon, sturgeon poaching, the Caspian, the Caspian Sea, the Caspian seal

Conducting a regular raid in the water area of the Caspian Sea, Dagestan border guards found a poaching camp on the southern part of Chechen

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