EU fisheries ministers thrashed out a deal on Tuesday setting quotas for deep-water fish, exotic but threatened species that are fast becoming an alternative to overcaught mainstays such as cod and hake, officials said.
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An RAF search and rescue crew has captured rare footage of a pod of deep diving whales while training over the Moray Firth. [The Irish Air Corps provide similar sightings to the IWDG under the
A dolphin that lives along the west coast of Taiwan is declining to dangerously low numbers because of over-fishing and pollution, local environmental researchers said on Monday.
A team of hunters will kill about 80 beluga whales trapped in a frozen waterway on Canada’s Arctic Coast in what local officials said on Thursday is an act of mercy.
The badly-decomposed body of a 50ft (15m) [Fin – Ed] whale washed up on a Sussex beach will be removed at low tide on Friday. BBC
Six Japanese whaling ships have set sail for their annual hunt in the south Atlantic. BBC
The IWDG presentation “Everything you wanted to know about whales and dolphins in Sligo but were afraid to ask” by Simon Berrow on Tuesday 14 November at 8pm is now available on the internet.
Two minke whales have been spotted around the coast of the Isle of Man over the past few days. BBC
About 40 whales died on a New Zealand beach after swimming too close to shore but beachside residents were able to save about 40 others, Australian media reported on Friday.
A Sowerby’s Beaked Whale stranded at Inishcrone, Kilalla Bay, Co Sligo on 12th November. Reported by IWDG member Neil Gilroy, the whale was initially thought to be a Cuviers beaked whale, the most frequently stranded on the family Ziphiiae, but on closer inspection single tooth, measuring 20-30mm in each lower jaw, were found to be