Name: Cetacean bycatches in the northern Black Sea
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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

License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

URL

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

Archive

https://ipt.vliz.be/eurobis/archive.do?r=birkun_bycatch_blacksea

Contacts

Alexei Birkun
Brema Laboratory

Sergey Krivokhizhin
Brema Laboratory

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

648

total submitted occurrences

648

accepted occurrences

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