The ‘TursioNet’ project, funded by the Foundation Prince Albert II of Monaco in the framework of the Pelagos Initiative, intends to develop an automatic detection system to map and monitor interactions between bottlenose dolphins and small-scale fisheries gillnets in the waters of the Pelagos Sanctuary, paving the way for potential conflict mitigation between dolphins and fishermen.

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Project activities include the underwater recording of acoustic emissions of dolphins during their interactions with small fishing nets. The recordings are collected and analysed in order to assess the level of predation of the animals in the vicinity of the nets, as a first step, to try to model the type of acoustic signals that are used, to design a small automatic recognition software, and this is the second step, and to realise a device that remotely transmits the existence of a positive contact and draws a point on an online cartographic database.