Cetacean mortality along the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast during 2017

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FERIHA TSERKOVA¹  KRASTIO DIMITROV¹  YANA VELINA¹  YANA YORDANOVA¹  VENTSESLAV DELOV¹  DIMITAR PARVANOV¹  STOYAN YORDANOV¹  ELICA PETROVA¹  ATANAS GROZDANOV¹  VIOLETA EVTIMOVA² 

[1] ;

[2] Department of Zoology and anthropology, Faculty of Biology, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Sofia, Bulgaria;

关键词: Cetaceans;    mortality;    Black Sea;   

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来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The present study provides information on the stranding of cetaceans along theBulgarian Black Sea Coast during 2017. Observations were made trough covering transectsalong the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast. A total of 198 cetaceans of three species were found -Harbor Porpoise (Phocoena phocoena), Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus), andCommon Dolphin (Delphinus delphis). The most numerous were the harbor porpoise - 48%followed by the bottlenose dolphin - 15% and common dolphin - 8%. The most significantnumber of strandings was observed during July and August (54% of all cases). Cetaceanstrandings events were relatively highly concentrated in the area of Shabla, Varna andPomorie.

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