New mitigation measures to protect marine mammals during acoustic seafloor surveys in Irish waters came into force last week. These measures “Code of Practice for the protection of marine mammals during acoustic seafloor surveys within Irish waters” were developed through extensive consultation with interested parties including the IWDG, CMRC, Petroleum Affairs Division and the industry.
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The Shannon dolphin photo-identification catalogue has been updated with new and recent images of 200 individual dolphins.
The 101 Maritime Squadron have forwarded more sightings of several offshore species, this time from Northwest waters.
After a relatively quiet few weeks on the strandings front, there have been three separate live- strandings in counties Donegal & Derry.
IWDG are delighted to announce that the milestone of the 10,000th cetacean sighting record has just been achieved.
Warm settled weather, made for a successful weekend course on Cape, even if the beasts were few and far between.
Update II :9 July Unfortunately the IWDG received a report on Saturday (7th July) of a stranded basking shark at Drom East, Cloghane, Co. Kerry. The c.5m female shark, had stranded the previous day in fresh condition and was almost completely entangled in monofilament netting. Drom East is quite close to Brandon Point where the
Marine conservation charity Organisation Cetacea (ORCA) is pleased to announce the development of a new partnership with ferry company DFDS Seaways that will enable large areas of the North Sea to be surveyed regularly for whales and dolphins. The 18 months of survey data already collected on the DFDS Newcastle Norway route by ORCA
Report update VII: 4 July 16:50 Two additional dolphin reports today from Bray and Wicklow Head suggest that the bottlenose dolphins are still active in the area. Report update VI: 3 July 17:50 A synopsis of the details provided in a number of reports yesterday evening from Patrick O’ Mara, Anthony Quinn & Luke Johnston
Crikey, it doesn’t seem all that long ago when on a busy month we might receive 15 sighting records, whereas today we could receive this many sightings on any given day. In the early days we never knew how we’d receive your records, which was always part of the fun and indeed challenge. Back in