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Germany<br />

Year<br />

Number of<br />

whale<br />

watchers<br />

AAGR Number of<br />

operators<br />

Direct<br />

expenditure<br />

Indirect<br />

expenditure<br />

Total<br />

expenditure<br />

1991 Minimal N/A Minimal Minimal Minimal Minimal<br />

1994 Minimal N/A Minimal Minimal Minimal Minimal<br />

1998 Minimal N/A Minimal Minimal Minimal Minimal<br />

2008 Minimal N/A Minimal Minimal Minimal Minimal<br />

Capital City: Berlin<br />

<strong>Whale</strong> Watch Locations:<br />

01: Sylt<br />

Despite having regular and popular sightings of harbour porpoises<br />

on the German island of Sylt in the North Sea, there remains no real<br />

formal whale or dolphin watching industry in Germany.<br />

Only very minimal cetacean watching occurs off the German coast.<br />

No established formal tours are present but porpoises are a popular<br />

attraction during the months of April to October on Sylt and are<br />

occasionally seen also from boats. In particular, according to Hoyt<br />

(2003), harbour porpoises can be seen regularly from the ferry that<br />

travels between the Danish Island of Rømø and the northern end of Sylt.<br />

References:<br />

Hoyt, E 2003, ‘The Best <strong>Whale</strong> <strong>Watching</strong> in Europe –a guide to seeing whales, dolphins and porpoises in all European<br />

waters’, WDCS, Unterhaching, Germany, 60pp.<br />

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