the Baltic sea is an almost daily discovery: dead porpoises. 2018 have been found, according to the Federal government a total of 203 dead sea mammals. Debt the person is often.
The number of dead found harbour porpoises in the German Baltic sea has increased since the year 2000. In the past year, 203 of the dead animals were discovered – the second-highest value in the comparison period. The response of the Federal government to a request of the Greens, the tagesschau.de .
in 2000, still only 22 harbour porpoises at the German Baltic sea coast found dead, the number of finds increased, especially from the year 2007 and 2016, reaching a peak of 221 dead found animals. In the year 2017, the number has declined, with 154 finds it clear, to again substantially increase.
According to the response of the Federal government, could not be determined in the years between 2003 and 2011 in the majority of cases, the cause of death. Where this was still possible, was often by-catch, the cause of death (27 of 58 cases, nine suspected cases), similar to the often by-catch could be ruled out (22 cases).
porpoises are the most common whales in the Baltic sea. But the fishing is a threat to their stock and pollutants in the sea.
– Green call for clear rules for fishing
Steffi Lemke, parliamentary Executive Manager of the Greens, spoke of an “alarming increase” – porpoises in the German Baltic sea are still threatened with extinction. She criticized that the protection zones in the North sea and the Baltic sea no clear rules for fishing and industrial use. According to the plans of the Federal government, gillnet fisheries remain there still widely accepted: “The protected areas are so far only on paper.”
The Green demanded of the Federal government’s “zero-use zones in protected areas”, and thus “real refuges for marine mammals,” in the German North sea and Baltic sea.
The Federal government reiterated in its reply to the Green, you use “strongly” for the protection of whales. You referred to “the development of warning devices” intended to keep Harbor porpoises by Gill nets. This led to a “significant reduction of by-Catches”.
