trawl – 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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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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