Five Dolphins Found Dead In Two Days On Romanian Seaside Beaches

According to the coordinating manager of Oceanic Club Constanta, biologist Razvan Popescu Mirceni, a "Torsiops Truncatus" dolphin was found Sunday morning on the beach in front of a hotel in Mangalia. The dolphin, a female over two meters long and aged approximately three years, had died after getting entangled in fishing nets, given the fishnet wounds on the body.

Another dolphin, also a female, approximately one meter long and aged about two years, was found dead Sunday evening on a beach in seaside resort Saturn. Both mammals were taken by the Oceanic Club team to the Sanitary Veterinary Department in Constanta, where they were included in the diagnosis/research procedure within the program “Dolphins in crisis”.

Razvan Popescu Mirceni said another three dolphins were found dead Monday morning on beaches in Saturn – Mangalia. In these cases too, the deaths were most likely caused by fishers.

Last year, 44 dolphins were found dead on the Romanian seaside beaches.