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	<keywords><theme><themekt>None</themekt><themekey>Land-based</themekey><themekey>sightings</themekey><themekey>Black Sea cetaceans</themekey><themekey>common dolphin</themekey><themekey>harbour porpoise</themekey><themekey>bottlenose dolphin</themekey></theme><place><placekt>None</placekt><placekey>Romanian coastal waters from Sulina to Vama Veche</placekey></place></keywords>
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	<abstract>In the Black Sea the cetaceans are represented by three species, Phocoena phocoena relicta, Tursiops truncatus ponticus and Delphinus delphis ponticus.&#13;
&#13;
The main threat and cause of decline for the Black Sea dolphins are the &#13;
fishing nets, so-called bycatches.&#13;
For protection of the dolphin populations from Romanian Black Sea area in conformity with the objectives of the "National Action Plan for Conservation of Dolphins" and "Agreement on the Conservation of Cetaceans of the Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea and contiguous Atlantic &#13;
Area", with finance from European Union true the Sectorial Operational Programme – Environment, NGO "Mare Nostrum” started a series of activities in partnership with National Institute for Marine Research and Development "Grigore Antipa” Constanta, Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve Authority, National Agency for Fishing and Aquaculture, Natural Science Museum Complex "Dolphinarium” Constanta, Border Police Inspectorate of Constanta County. The data were collected mainly opportunistic and shared through the National Monitoring Network that we coordinate.</abstract><purpose>Develope the knowledge of Black Sea cetacean within the Romanian coastal &#13;
waters and increase involvement towards citizen science.</purpose><supplinf>[UPDATE] 2022 data were added on 2023-01-09&#13;
[UPDATE] 2021 data were added on 2022-02-07&#13;
[UPDATE] 2020 data were added on 2021-03-08&#13;
[UPDATE] 2018 and 2019 data were added on 2020-01-23&#13;
[UPDATE] 2015 data were added on 2016-03-03&#13;
[UPDATE] 2014 data were added on 2015-01-27&#13;
[UPDATE] 2013 data were added on 2014-02-26&#13;
[UPDATE] 2012 data were added on 2013-02-27&#13;
&#13;
Observations were made from shore.&#13;
Supplemental boat-based observations are abailable: &lt;a href="/dataset/832"&gt;Cetaceans along Romanian Black Sea Coast by boat 2010-2011&lt;/a&gt;&#13;
&#13;
Additional references:&#13;
&lt;a href="http://www.czga.ro/pagina.php?id=1" target="_blank"&gt;Romulus-Marian PAIU, Manuela Diana SAMARGIU, Mihaela CÂNDEA, Eugen ANTON. 2011. New data on bycatch and &#13;
strandings of the Black Sea cetacean situation in the Romanian coast, and measures to limit bycatch deaths/fatalities. Book of abstracts at the Annual Zoological Congres of. 97&lt;/a&gt;</supplinf></descript>
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		<citeinfo><origin>Paiu, R.M., Paiu, A., Mirea-Candea, M.,  Gheorghe A.M., Timofte, C.</origin><pubdate>2022</pubdate><title>Cetacean sightings within the Romanian Black Sea waters between 2010-2021. Mare Nostrum Cetacean Monitoring and Conservation Program - annual report</title><serinfo><sername>Researches MarinesData downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/833) on yyyy-mm-dd</sername></serinfo></citeinfo>
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	<timeperd><current>ground condition</current><timeinfo><rngdates><begdate>20101020</begdate><enddate>20220804</enddate></rngdates></timeinfo></timeperd>
	<status><progress>In work</progress><update>Annually</update></status>
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	<useconst>1. Not to use data obtained from OBIS-SEAMAP in any publication, product, or commercial application without proper attribution to the original data provider(s) and OBIS-&#13;
SEAMAP unless the datasets are explicitly shown under the CC0 policy. Citations or credits are suggested as attribution. If the data you downloaded come from multiple &#13;
datasets, a citation or credit to each of the datasets is required.&#13;
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Suggested citation for this dataset:&#13;
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Suggested citation for OBIS-SEAMAP:&#13;
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Halpin, P.N., A.J. Read, E. Fujioka, B.D. Best, B. Donnelly, L.J. Hazen, C. Kot, K. Urian, E. LaBrecque, A. Dimatteo, J. Cleary, C. Good, L.B. Crowder, and K.D. Hyrenbach. 2009. OBIS-&#13;
SEAMAP: The world data center for marine mammal, sea bird, and sea turtle distributions. Oceanography 22(2):104-115&#13;
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2. To forward the citation of any publication / report that made use of the data / tools provided by OBIS-SEAMAP for inclusion in our list of references.&#13;
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3. Not to hold OBIS-SEAMAP or the original data providers liable for errors in the data. While we have made every effort to ensure the quality of the database, we cannot &#13;
guarantee the accuracy of these datasets. &#13;
&#13;
4. The burden for determining fitness for use of the downloaded data for any analyses lies entirely with the user. OBIS-SEAMAP or the original data providers do not support &#13;
outcomes of your analyses that used the data you downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP.&#13;
&#13;
5. To consider inclusion of the accompanying transect (effort) dataset if available into the methodology of your analyses.&#13;
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6. Not to redistribute the data you downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP through any media without contect from OBIS-SEAMAP and the original data providers unless the datasets &#13;
are explicitly shown under the CC0 policy.</useconst>
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		<cntpos/><cntvoice>+40241 612 422</cntvoice><cntemail>marian_paiu@marenostrum.ro</cntemail><cntfax>+40241 612 422</cntfax></cntinfo>
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	<distliab>Not to hold OBIS-SEAMAP liable for errors in the data. While we have made every effort to ensure the quality of the database, we cannot guarantee the accuracy of these datasets.&#13;
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	</spatRepInfo><eainfo><overview><eaover>This section explains attributes included in the original dataset.&#13;
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