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Introduction
 
Strandings of sea birds and marine mammals on the Belgian coast
 
Specific examples
 
Strandings and sightings database
 
What can you do?
 
Exotic species
 
Coastal pollution, Tricolor incident: bird statistics
   
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Management
Land-based sources of pollution and sea-based activities
 
What the law says
Recent legislation
 
ASCOBANS
Agreement on the Conservation of Small Cetaceans of the Baltic and North Seas
   
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Birds victim of oil pollution during the TRICOLOR incident, winter 2003

NUMBER OF BIRDS COLLECTED ON BELGIAN BEACHES
Data: MUMM & Instituut voor Natuurbehoud
Date
Alive
[details]
Dead
[details]
Total
23-25 jan
560
17
577
26 jan
883
100
983
27 jan
342
23
365
28 jan
253
132
385
29 jan
353
449
802
30 jan
241
846
1087
31 jan
99
451
550
1 feb
35
88
123
2 feb
74
98
172
3 feb
215
159
374
4 feb
350
277
627
5 feb
414
444
858
6 feb
536
523
1059
7 feb
284
391
675
8 feb
189
48
237
9 feb
84
93
177
10 feb
26
26
52
11 feb
15
24
39
12 feb
12
1
13
13 feb.
1
0
1
14 feb.
7
6
13
15 feb.
7
0
7
Total
4980
4196
9176
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Coastal forecast

TIDES
OSTEND
[TAW]
 
Time
Elev.
 Low
20:30
-0.05 m
 High
14:20
4.67 m
 Table Graph North Sea animation Belgian coastal zone animation

Harmonic prediction 
Ostend 1980–2020:
  *to
Enter as YYYY-MM-DD
  
WIND
WESTHINDER
 Speed 5.55 m/s 
 Sector 97° , E 
 Table Graph Line plot North Sea animation
  
WAVES
AKKAERT
 Height 0.59 m
 Table Graph North Sea animation
  
CURRENTS
WESTHINDER
 Graph ploar plot Line plot North Sea animation Belgian coastal zone animation
  
TEMPERATURE
OSTEND
 Graph Daily maps
  
SALINITY
OSTEND
 Graph Daily maps
  
TRANSPORT
  Daily maps
  


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