haul-out site – Kaspika

Kaspika

Caspian Seals Conservation Agency

Caspian seals hauling-out on Kendirli islands, the middle Caspian Sea, April 04, 2019. Author Baimukanov T.T.

Assessment of the fish diet of the Caspian seal (Pusa capsica, Gmelin, 1788)

07/10/202516/10/2025 Kaspika 0 Comment Caspian seal, diet, fish, haul-out site, Institute of Hydrobiology and Ecology, Kaspika Caspian seals Conservation Agency, nutrition, otoliths, Phoca caspica, Pusa caspica

© 2025. Baimukanov M. (1), Shagilbayev A. (1)*, Iskakov A. (1), Baimukanova A. (1,2). (1) Laboratory of Ecology of Aquatic and Near-Aquatic Organisms, Institute of Hydrobiology and Ecology,

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The haul-out site of Caspian seals near Malyy Zhemchuzhnyy Island. Photo by Natalya Meshcheryakova and Maxim Perkovsky.

Though small but pearl

12/05/202127/10/2025 Kaspika 0 Comment Astrakhan State Biosphere Nature Reserve, haul-out site, Kaspika, Malyy Zhemchuzhnyy, monitoring, Phoca caspica, Pusa caspica, Small Pearl Island, the Caspian Sea, the Caspian seal

On May 7, 2021, researchers from the Astrakhanskiy State Biosphere Nature Reserve conducted a comprehensive monitoring of Malyy Zhemchuzhnyy Island

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The Caspian seals haul-out site on a sandbank in the area of the North Caspian Sea Canal. Photo by Mulyaev A.N.

The Caspian seal, Autumn, 2020

29/11/202015/05/2025 Kaspika 0 Comment Astrakhanskiy State Nature Bioshere Reserve, haul-out site, IPEE RAS, KAPE, Malyy Zhemchuzhnyy, NCOC N.V., Phoca caspica, Pusa caspica, sandbank, SPC M and V, the Caspian, the Caspian Sea, the Caspian seal, the North Caspian, the North Caspian Sea Channel, the Volga-Caspian Chanel

This autumn, within the framework of the International Caspian Seal Research Program for the Northern Caspian in 2019-2023, supported by NCOC

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