kilka – 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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