The first INJ prize is to be awarded to IWDG members Conor Ryan and Peter Wilson for their paper “Observations on the behaviour of killer whales that visited Cork harbour in 2001”. The prize giving on 13 April will be followed by a lecture by Dr Simon Be
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It’s great to be able report some cetacean activity within a stone throw of the nation’s capital. Today, 10th April, we received several reports from IWDG commitee members of large numbers of harbour porpoises in a number of Dublin locations.
Sakhalin Energy, a Shell-led liquefied natural gas project on Russia’s Pacific coast, said on Wednesday it would reroute offshore pipelines to help protect an endangered species of grey whale.
Nick Masset reported a single basking shark in Ventry Harbour, Co. Kerry, on 29 March, while on 30 March “effort” whale- watches from both Ram Head, Ardmore, Co. Waterford and Galley Head, Co. Cork also produced single basking sharks. The bad news is that this period is historically considered to be the “low season” for
An “effort” watch this morning off Whitehead, Co. Antrim by Ian Enlander, EHS, produced the 1st confirmed basking shark of the year, as one was observed over a 2-3 minute period travelling east. Interestingly, the 1st record of this species last year was
Canada said on Tuesday it would allow 320,000 young seals to be killed this year and launched an unusually strong attack on activists who promise to boycott Canadian seafood products in a bid to stop the hunt.
British coastguards said on Friday they had intervened to stop a confrontation at sea between Greenpeace protesters and trawlermen because of fears people could be killed.
This morning (14 March) a dolphin, live stranded at Lissadell, Co Sligo was reported to the IWDG. After a number of attempts to refloat it at Lissadell, the animal was transported to nearby Raughley Pier and apparently successfully refloated. The dolphin was found by local clam farmers and reported to Don Cotton of Sligo RTC.
On 7th March IWDG received a call from Michelle Walsh, reporting the carcass of a whale washed up at Belgooly Creek, Oysterhaven, near Kinsale, Co. Cork . We visited the site on 8th March and can confirm that the whale is another adult male, sperm whale. Interestingly this is the 2nd adult male sperm whale
World stocks of most fish, including Atlantic herring and capelin, are stretched to their limits and nearly a quarter are already over-exploited, a United Nations agency said on Monday.