Globally, large numbers of marine mammals are entangled and drowned in fishing gear every year. Much of this mortality is associated with illegal and unregulated
Tag: Caspian Sea
Understanding how icebreaking vessels can impact on breeding seals and what to do about it
By Simon Goodman & Sue Wilson In our new open access paper, just published in Biological Conservation, we examined the impact of icebreaking vessels passing
Short film: Caspian seals moulting in Komsomolets Bay, Kazakhstan
Komsomolets Bay on the north eastern shore of the Caspian Sea, Kazakhstan, is a remote area of shallow water, with countless small inlets among extensive
Caspian seal conservation (short film)
Here’s a link to a short film by Kazakh colleagues about some of our work with them on Caspian seal ecology & conservation (in Russian