The proposed project would significantly contribute towards several of
the Activities highlighted in the Agreement’s Triennium Work Plan,
including being highly informative to the implementation and monitoring
of the Recovery Plan for Baltic Harbour Porpoises (Jastarnia Plan), a
proposed strategic priority in the Strategy plan. The ancient DNA
analysis would help establish a much longer-term baseline dataset of
effective population size estimates. The genetic monitoring protocol will
provide a low-cost, effective sampling method, which will greatly enhance
the data from surveys and be highly informative of the success of the
recovery plan.