Bottlenose Dolphins in the Northern Adriatic Sea: a long-term assessment of the population dynamics

Bottlenose dolphins population is established to be 'Endangered', threatened by habitat degradation, food depletion and unintentional catches by fisheries. The aim of this study is to determine which was the population of bottlenose dolphins present in the 1930s in the Northern Adriatic Sea. It is applied a Bayesian Stochastic Stock Reduction Analysis, modeling the carrying capacity, the net growth rate and the time series of catches. More than the 40% of the population has been reduced