Interactions between marine mammals and high seas fisheries in Kamchatka waters (based on monitoring data for 2012–2022)

Abstract

Occurrence of marine mammals in different types of  fisheries and interactions between marine mammals and fisheries in the Okhotsk and Bering Seas and the Pacific waters adjacent to the eastern coast of Kamchatka and the Kuril Islands was analyzed. Classification of marine mammal species on their dependence from the fisheries has been made.