The land and boat based whale watching potential is wonderful at present as at least a dozen fin and many minke whales have been seen off Courtmacsherry and Clonakilty Bays.
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As part of the IWDG/GMIT project PReCAST, Greg Donovan, of the International Whaling Commission will give a public lecture in GMIT at 13:10 on Monday 24 November.
The Nisshin Maru set out from Innoshima in western Japan, Greenpeace said, part of a plan to take about 850 minke whales and 50 fin whales. Last year six ships took part in the hunt.
Japan’s annual cull, carried out for what it says is scientific research, will begin in weeks. Planet Ark
European Union Fisheries Commissioner Joe Borg, who has often complained that existing controls are inadequate, proposed tightening up controls on inspections, monitoring and traceability requirements for the fishing industry.
A striped dolphin Stenella coeruleoalba live stranded today (14 November) at Doonsheane, near Dingle, Co. Kerry.
Once again it was land-based reports from our network which gave us that all important steer as to where we should search for fin whales during our weeks fieldwork which we had planned to coincide with the peak in inshore sightings. Reports early in the week came from IWDG UK members Mary & John Imber
In the most significant environmental case of its new term and its first ruling of the term, the high court threw out a federal judge’s injunction that had required the Navy to take precautions during submarine-hunting exercises.
Tiny, remote-controlled helicopters hovering above the blowholes of whales have collected snot samples that could help scientists learn which bacteria lurk in seemingly healthy cetaceans in the wild.
Report IV: 4/11/08 We have just heard back from Richard Sears of Mingan Island Cetacean Study (MICS) Research Station in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, regarding the blue whale photographed by Ivan O' Kelly in Irish offshore southwest waters on 15th Sept 2008. The MICS co-ordinate the North Atlantic blue whale catalogue, and have a