POST EXPO REPORT 9/03/08 This year’s Irish Skipper inshore fisheries EXPO in the Galway Bay Hotel was a great success. Over the 2 day period IWDG met many old friends, members and most importantly, inshore fishermen from around the Irish coast. We estimated that 300-350 visited the IWDG stand and learned about our on-going work
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Ship captains setting sail will soon have an extra kind of forecast to check the likelihood of whales. Planet Ark
Scientists aboard the NOAA research vessel Oscar Dyson in the North Pacific have sighted a creature of great rarity and even myth: a white whale. Planet A
Scientists aboard the NOAA research vessel Oscar Dyson in the North Pacific have sighted a creature of great rarity and even myth: a white whale. Planet A
A sharp drop in the number Mekong dolphins born in Cambodia has renewed fears for the survival of the rare mammals, wildlife experts said on Wednesday. Pl
Anti-whaling protesters threw bottles containing a pungent chemical at a Japanese whaling ship in a skirmish near Antarctica on Monday, injuring three of the crew, Japan’s Fisheries Agency said.
Like many northerners who head south to warmer climates for the winter, many Northern right whales also head south in November and stay into April. Their destination is the only known calving ground for this rare and endangered populationthe waters off F
deadly combination of climate change, over-fishing and pollution could cause the collapse of commercial fish stocks worldwide within decades, said Achim Steiner, head of the United Nations Environment Programme.
Report II The Leatherback turtle was brought down to UCD 25/02/08 where a post mortem examination was carried out. Dr Tom Doyle, UCC reports that it was a male, measuring 152 cm (curved carapace length). ” …It had a major head wound (part of skull was missing but healed over see photo) which may have
The IWDG fin whale catalogue now contains 41 recognisable individuals and is available in the sightings page by clicking “photo-ID” option, and selecting from the drop down window.