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The Irish Ferries high speed ferry ‘Jonathan Swift’ was reported to have struck a soft object, possibly a whale off the Holyhead coast at 2pm today.

Update 9 Analysis of all available images end the debate on the identification of the Larne balaenopterid. It was clear from the post mortem that this was not a fin whale, and all indicators, including the jet black baleen on both sides, were that it was a sei whale. But there was an outside chance

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Newly discovered gardens of colorful corals, which bloom about 1,000 feet (305 meters) underwater off Alaska’s Aleutian Islands and in the Gulf of Alaska, will get special protection starting Friday.

The European Union and Mauritania reached agreement on Saturday on a new fisheries partnership that will give EU vessels access to the African nation’s fish stocks for another six years.

The dead whale was reported washed up at Baile na hAbhainn, Inverin in Galway Bay by Rory Thynne. After an email to IWDG Galway members, Joanne O’Brien, visited the site to confirm it was a male humpback whale calf. The whale was in good condition with most of its skin intact. At 6.0m long the

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