The European Commission is today publishing a Green Paper asking citizens how they want to deal with oceans and seas and launching one of the largest consultation exercises in the EU’s history. The Green Paper, called ‘Towards a future Maritime Policy for the Union: A European vision for the oceans and seas’, is a response
Yearly Archives: 2006
The continuing spell of settled weather over the bank holiday weekend has produced a plethora of basking shark, dolphin and even whale sightings from all waters. Noteworthy among them are whales off Dublin and Risso’s dolphins of Wicklow coast. For the 3rd consecutive year whales have been seen in Dublin’s offshore waters around Rockabill and
Australia began a last-ditch attempt to lobby small Pacific Island nations to support whale conservation on Tuesday, warning that every vote at next month’s International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting would be crucial.
There are still places available on the popular IWDG whalewatching courses on beautiful Cape Clear Island this summer. The first of these is being held between 14-16th July.
A seven-metre long humpback whale has been freed by Royal Navy divers from creel fishing lines near Applecross, Wester Ross, Scotland. BBC
The Irish Whale and Dolphin Group (IWDG) have recently learnt that NATO intend to use a range of active sonar systems during their forthcoming training exercise Steadfast Jaguar in the Cape Verde Islands. There has been considerable concern over the impact of Low Frequency Active Sonar (LFAS) on cetaceans from marine mammal experts from around
A number of sightings of Risso’s dolphins in the past week between Wicklow and Greystones suggests their annual inshore movement has begun.
Governments worldwide have failed to prevent overfishing in the oceans, where a proliferation of bottom-trawling threatens to wipe out deep sea species, conservation groups WWF and Traffic said on Friday.
A team of scientists from Scotland is proposing to carry out experiments on killer whales in the wild in order to study their reaction to sound. BBC
The final report of the recent IWDG expedition to Cape Verde is now available. The second IWDG humpback whale expedition to Cape Verde recorded 36 sightings or encounters of seven species, during the 1200 nautical miles surveyed. Most sightings were of humpback whales but six species of odontocetes were also recorded. Most sightings of humpback