MV Emanuel Bronner

The MV Emanuel Bronner is a small ship owned and operated by Sea Shepherd Germany as a Baltic Sea conservation patrol vessel.[1][2] It was unveiled on 1 June 2017 at the Vegesack museum harbor in Bremen, Germany.

History
Germany
Launched: 1970
Fate: Sold to Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
Germany
Name: MV Emanuel Bronner
Owner: Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
Operator: Sea Shepherd Germany
Port of registry: Germany
Commissioned: 1 June 2017
In service: 2017—present
Identification:
Status: in active service
General characteristics
Displacement: 11 tons
Length: 11.65 m (38.2 ft)
Beam: 3.6 m (12 ft)
Draft: 1.4 m (4 ft 7 in)
Installed power: 2 engines
Speed: 27 knots
Complement: Max. 4

The vessel was donated by philanthropist Michael Bronner, and it was named after his grandfather, Emanuel Bronner. The vessel will help to protect the endangered harbor porpoise in the Baltic Sea by documenting illegal fishing nets and reporting them to the local authorities.[3][4]

Although the harbour porpoise species overall is considered to be of Least Concern by the IUCN,[5] they consider the Baltic Sea and Western African populations, and the subspecies P. p. relicta of the Black Sea endangered.[6][7][8]

A harbour porpoise

See also

References
  1. Introducing the latest addition to the Sea Shepherd fleet, the M/V Emanuel Bronner. Sea Shepherd Global. 2 June 2017.
  2. MV Emanuel Bronner. Marine Traffic. Accessed 2 January 2018.
  3. Baltic Sea Campaign. Sea Shepherd Global. 2017.
  4. Sea Shepherd Germany announces the Baltic Sea Campaign. Sea Shepherd Global. 3 June 2017.
  5. Hammond, P.S.; Bearzi, G.; Bjørge, A.; Forney, K.; Karczmarski, L.; Kasuya, T.; Perrin, W.F.; Scott, M.D.; Wang, J.Y.; Wells, R.S.; et al. (2008). "Phocoena phocoena". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2008. Retrieved 7 October 2008.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  6. Hammond, P.S.; Bearzi, G.; Bjørge, A.; Forney, K.; Karczmarski, L.; Kasuya, T.; Perrin, W.F.; Scott, M.D.; Wang, J.Y.; Wells, R.S.; et al. (2008). "Phocoena phocoena (Baltic Sea subpopulation)". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2008. Retrieved 1 June 2017.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  7. Birkun Jr., A.A.; Frantzis, A.; et al. (2008). "Phocoena phocoena ssp. relicta". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2008. Retrieved 1 June 2017.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  8. "Phocoena phocoena". Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals. Retrieved 1 June 2017.
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