A total of 648 incidental catches of Black Sea cetaceans in fishing gear have been recorded in the northern Black Sea off the coasts of Crimea between 1997 and 2009.

Citation: Cetacean bycatches in the northern Black Sea (CetByBlaS). 2011. Dataset assembled by A.Birkun, Jr. and S.Krivokhizhin. EMODNet.

Published: September 17, 2025 at 09:48

URL: http://ipt.vliz.be/eurobis/resource?r=birkun_bycatch_blacksea

Alexei Birkun
Brema Laboratory

Sergey Krivokhizhin
Brema Laboratory

Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ)
Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ)

648

occurrence records

taxa

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	648	100.0%
maximumDepthInMeters	648	100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters	648	100.0%

Quality flags

The OBIS data quality flags are documented at https://github.com/iobis/obis-qc.

Flag	Dropped	Records
NO_DEPTH		648	100.0%
ON_LAND		1	0.2%

Cetacean bycatches in the northern Black Sea

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data