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Conservation Plan for Black Sea Cetaceans.

It is generally recognized that all three Black Sea cetacean species – the harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena), short-beaked common dolphin (Delphinus delphis) and common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) – experienced a dramatic decline in abundance in the 20th century as a result of large directed catches. Commercial hunting of Black Sea cetaceans was banned in 1966 in the former USSR (present Georgia, Russia and Ukraine), Bulgaria and Romania, and in 1983 in Turkey. However, current fisheries bycatches, extensive habitat degradation and some other anthropogenic impacts pose permanent threats to the continued existence of cetaceans in the Black Sea and contiguous waters represented by the Sea of Azov, Kerch Strait and Turkish Straits System (including the Bosphorus Strait, Marmara Sea and Dardanelles Straits). The principal goals of this plan are to provide a framework and priority actions whereby the Black Sea Community (scientists, fishermen, industry, NGOs, local and national governments, and appropriate intergovernmental organisations) can in the short-term (2006-2010) begin to practically improve the conservation status of Black Sea cetaceans, and in particular obtain the necessary scientific information to allow a full long-term conservation plan to be developed at the end of the period and effective management decisions to be made. The actions presented are grouped into six sections in accordance with basic objectives wholly correspondent with appropriate items of the ACCOBAMS Conservation Plan: • Consolidation of international and national legal system • Assessment and management of human-cetacean interactions • Habitat protection • Research and monitoring • Capacity building, collection and dissemination of information, training and education • Responses to emergency situations

conservation plan; cetaceans; Black sea

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