The endangered Black Sea harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena relicta) is facing a critical fight for survival. As Europe's smallest marine mammal, this isolated population is being pushed toward extinction by bycatch—the unintentional entanglement in fishing gear. The crisis is most acute in the Bl ack Sea turbot fishery, where recent estimates reveal that more than 10,000 porpoises die annually. ...read more read less