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	<keywords><theme><themekt>None</themekt><themekey>Land-based</themekey><themekey>cetacean</themekey><themekey>strandings</themekey><themekey>Black Sea dolphins</themekey><themekey>harbour porpoise</themekey><themekey>common dolphin</themekey><themekey>bottlenose dolphin</themekey></theme><place><placekt>None</placekt><placekey>Romanian Black Sea coast</placekey></place></keywords>
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	<abstract>In the Black Sea, the cetaceans are represented by three species, &#13;
&lt;i&gt;Phocoena phocoena relicta&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;Tursiops truncatus ponticus&lt;/i&gt; and &#13;
&lt;i&gt;Delphinus delphis ponticus&lt;/i&gt;. The main threat and cause of decline &#13;
for the Black Sea dolphins are the fishing nets, or bycatches.&#13;
&#13;
For protection of the dolphin populations from Romanian Black Sea area in &#13;
conformity with the objectives of the "National Action Plan for &#13;
Conservation of Dolphins" and "Agreement on the Conservation of &#13;
Cetaceans of the Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea and contiguous Atlantic &#13;
Area," with financial support from European Union through the Sectorial &#13;
Operational Programme – Environment, the NGO "Mare Nostrum" started a &#13;
series of activities in partnership with National Institute for Marine &#13;
Research and Development "Grigore Antipa" Constanța, Danube Delta &#13;
Biosphere Reserve Authority, National Agency for Fishing and &#13;
Aquaculture, Natural Science Museum Complex "Dolphinarium" &#13;
Constanța, Border Police Inspectorate of Constanța County. From 2012, &#13;
Mare Nostrum continued collecting data through inhouse funding or &#13;
projects like the ones financed through the ACCOBAMS Secretariat fund or &#13;
through a CSR private company.  Latest project was ANEMONE project. &#13;
The present database presents the situation of dolphin strandings along &#13;
the Romanian coast during 2010 and 2020. The data were collected from &#13;
the entire Romanian coast, from Sulina to Vama Veche.</abstract><purpose>The purpose of this research was to create a National Stranded Cetacean &#13;
DataBase through a continue monitoring of the strandings  along the &#13;
Romanian Black Sea coast.</purpose><supplinf>The dataset is not available for download until the provider publishes the &#13;
journal article on the data.&#13;
&#13;
[UPDATE] 2022 data were added on 2023-01-09.&#13;
[UPDATE] 2018 data were added on 2021-02-16. The records for the species &#13;
"NI" were previously not included in the dataset. These records are now &#13;
registered as Cetacea and included in the dataset.&#13;
&#13;
[UPDATE] 2021 data were added on 2022-02-07.&#13;
[UPDATE] 2020 data were added on 2021-03-01.&#13;
one of the strandings (a Tursiops) is near Cernavoda city on the Danube, &#13;
which was confirmed.&#13;
&#13;
[UPDATE] 2019 data were added on 2020-01-22.&#13;
[UPDATE] 2017 data were added on 2018-02-28.&#13;
[UPDATE] Data in 2015 were added on 2016-03-04. &#13;
[UPDATE] Data in 2014 were added on 2015-01-23. &#13;
A few existing 2013 records got coordinates fixed.&#13;
The stranding in 2002 was fixed to 2012.&#13;
&#13;
[UPDATE] Data in 2013 were added on 2014-02-20&#13;
&#13;
Additional references:&#13;
Paiu, M., E. Anton and M. Candea. 2012. Observation on dolphin sightings &#13;
at the Romanian coast and measures to reduce accidental cathes in &#13;
fishing nets. Recherches Marines. nr. 42/149-158</supplinf></descript>
	<citation>
		<citeinfo><origin>Paiu, R.M., Paiu, A., Mirea-Candea, M.,  Gheorghe A.M., Timofte, C.</origin><pubdate>2022</pubdate><title>Cetacean strandings along Romanian Black Sea coasts 2010-2022. Mare Nostrum Cetacean Monitoring and Conservation Program - annual report</title><serinfo><sername>Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/899) on yyyy-mm-dd</sername></serinfo></citeinfo>
	</citation>
	<timeperd><current>ground condition</current><timeinfo><rngdates><begdate>20100418</begdate><enddate>20221127</enddate></rngdates></timeinfo></timeperd>
	<status><progress>Complete</progress><update>None planned</update></status>
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	<accconst>Open public unless otherwise noted. See Use Constraints for details.</accconst>
	<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;
&#13;
Suggested citation for this dataset:&#13;
&#13;
&#13;
&#13;
Suggested citation for OBIS-SEAMAP:&#13;
&#13;
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;
&#13;
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;
&#13;
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;
&#13;
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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			<cntperp><cntper>Marian Paiu</cntper><cntorg>Mare Nostrum NGO</cntorg></cntperp>
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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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"Grigore Antipa"</datacred><crossref><citeinfo><origin>Paiu, R.M., Paiu, A., Mirea-Candea, M.,  Gheorghe A.M., Timofte, C.</origin><pubdate>2022</pubdate><title>Cetacean strandings along Romanian Black Sea coasts 2010-2022. Mare Nostrum Cetacean Monitoring and Conservation Program - annual report</title><geoform>vector digital data</geoform><serinfo><sername>Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/899) on yyyy-mm-dd</sername></serinfo></citeinfo></crossref><crossref><citeinfo><origin>Paiu Romulus-Marian</origin><pubdate>2016</pubdate><title>Correlation of Cetacean Stranding Events between 2010-2014 at the Romanian Coast</title><geoform>vector digital data</geoform><serinfo><sername>Researches Marines</sername><issue>2015/122-155</issue></serinfo></citeinfo></crossref><crossref><citeinfo><origin>Paiu Romulus-Marian</origin><pubdate>2010-2015</pubdate><title>Annual report in the frame of Monitoring and Conservation of Black Sea Dolphins Program</title><geoform>vector digital data</geoform><serinfo/></citeinfo></crossref><crossref><citeinfo><origin>Paiu, M</origin><pubdate>2023</pubdate><title>Strandings along Romanian Black Sea coasts since 2010</title><edition>Version 1.9.0</edition><geoform>vector digital data</geoform><serinfo><sername>OBIS-SEAMAP</sername><issue>899</issue></serinfo><pubinfo><pubplace>https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/899</pubplace><publish>OBIS-SEAMAP</publish></pubinfo><onlink>https://doi.org/10.82144/5094a4d2</onlink></citeinfo></crossref><crossref><citeinfo><origin>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</origin><pubdate>2009</pubdate><title>OBIS-SEAMAP: The world data center for marine mammal, sea bird, and sea turtle distributions</title><serinfo><sername>Oceanography</sername><issue>22(2):104-115</issue></serinfo></citeinfo></crossref></idinfo>

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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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