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Survey Ended: 2008 Southwest Herring Acoustic Survey Area: Southwest and South Coast Agency: Marine Institute Ship: R.V. Celtic Explorer Observer: Dave Wall ______________________________________ 24th October 2008 Having left the Shelter of Smerwick as darkness fell last night we endured a night of heavy rolling as we made our way – beam on to the still

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On the basis of land-based observations by Andrew Malcolm late last week and a good weather window we decided to head east towards the Waterford coast on Friday 17th Oct for a days filming with GMTV for the next “living the Wildlife” series to be shown on RTE. The plan was to locate, film and

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Conamara Sea Week 2008

Whales and dolphins will feature at this years Conamara Sea Week Conference which is entitled The Marine – an area still unknown from 25-27 October at Letterfrack, Co Galway.

Although this has seemed like a fairly quiet year as far as cetacean spotting is concerned there is obviously still a wide diversity of marine mammal life to be encountered in our inshore waters. Since 13th July and the humpback whale ‘Boomerang’s visit to Ardmore we have seen harbour porpoise, common, bottlenose and Risso’s dolphins

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The Supreme Court seemed on Wednesday closely split on whether President George W. Bush can exempt the Navy from federal environmental laws, a case pitting protection of whales against military training exercises.