An incident (yet another, unfortunately) of deliberate killing of a dolphin was recorded in recent days by the Marine Protection Institute of the Archipelago, on the northwest coast of Samos.
In this particular area, which is home to significant populations of four species of dolphins and is also subject to strong ocean currents, it is not uncommon to find dead marine mammals.
But in this particular incident, as Archipelagos points out, “the bottlenose dolphin was amputated at the tail with a sharp object. The violent death of a healthy dolphin, which suffers a slow and painful death, bleeding to the surface of the sea while struggling to breathe, can no longer be tolerated in this day and age.”
Archipelagos, in the same area last year in late spring, identified 4 other dead bottlenose dolphins that were killed in a similar manner.
It should be noted that both in the previous weeks, and in the same period in which the bottlenose dolphins were killed in 2023, there was activity in the region’s international waters by large fishing groups fishing with circular nets and not flying the Greek flag.