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Society for the rescue of dolphins (GRD) asks Croatia holiday-makers to use so many dolphins up once I’ve never seen. A very high 3 to 5 times jumped 50 m behind our boat out of the water! “, reported an avid boaters who suddenly surrounded by 30 to 40 animals only 150 metres from the Adriatic coast in the offer” saw. Although it has not always lucky enough to meet at boat trips on cosy marine mammals. Nevertheless, asks the company to save the dolphins e.V. (GRD) also this year again carefully after whales and dolphins look to keep all Croatia traveller, and to report their observation of the GRD.

The data collected in the project of GRD to the rescue of the last approx. 220 Adriatic dolphin and incorporated into surveys and analyses provided for the International Whaling Commission (IWC) of the Member countries. You are part of the basis of assessment for measures to protect threatened stocks of dolphins and their habitats to get. At wavy surface and if Dolphins just not in the mood for spring are easily overlooked, you can. Then the back fin and part of the back appear at most, if they come to breathe at the surface. “But their dark body colour is also good camouflage often enough turns out to be that there is a Dolphin” then unfortunately just as deceptive shadows of waves.

You must not set sail, often the skillful swimmers are also densely on the coast, as the analysis of last year’s sighting reports show. Our breakfast is served on the terrace of our hotel, we saw every morning dolphins in the Bay”, reported, for example, a tourist from Makarska, a port town near split. The tourists are also urged to report findings of stranded or dead marine mammals. Only so can be immediate rescue measures initiated or investigated the carcass on the cause of the death. This helps, for example, detection and prosecution of illegal dynamite fishing still practiced in Croatia. Registration form and notes to the correct Behave in encounters with whales and dolphins in the wild can be requested in the Office of the GRD or retrieved online. GRD / Ulrike Kirsch