Search results for: sea mammal

• Investigating the sustainability, utilisation, consumption and conservation of sea mammals – A systematic review

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  • S. A. Siddiqui
  • S. Baruah
  • Y. S. Wu
  • S. C. Yuansah
  • R. Castro Munoz
  • A. Szymkowiak
  • P. Kulawik

  - Sustainable Production and Consumption - Year 2024

  Almost 80 % of the oceans, especially the Arctic and Subarctic are primarily inhabited by marine mammals. Marine species depend mostly on sea ice for food, raising their young ones and safeguarding themselves from predators. Consumption of marine mammals has always been recommended as healthy, but the truth is that it can be detrimental for human health because of sea water pollution from trash and chemicals. This systematic review...

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• Whirling system of water exchangein breeding pools

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  • K. Matej-Łukowicz
  • J. Sawicki
  • P. Wielgat
  • P. Zima
  • I. Pawliczka Vel Pawlik

  - Archives of Hydro-Engineering and Environmental Mechanics - Year 2016

  To secure the proper conditions of life for sea mammals existing in closed systems one has to maintain the character of the breeding basins (i.e. shape, dimensions, facing of walls and bottom, quality and motion of water) as natural as possible. An appropriate system of water exchange plays a very important role here. A full renewal of water is time-consuming, expensive and troublesome, so can be made only periodically, and should...

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