Some 308,000 whales, dolphins and porpoises – collectively known as cetaceans – die each year from entanglement in fishing gear, finds new research by U.S. and British scientists. The study, which was submitted today to the International Whaling Commission (IWC), is the first global estimate of cetacean deaths caused by fishing bycatch. Full Story +News
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Norway today announced that it will protect one of its cold water reefs before it is further damaged by trawling vessels. Discovered and mapped only last summer, Norway’s 1,000 year old Tisler Reef lies along the Norway-Sweden border at a depth of 74 to 1
The southern right whale could be lost to New Zealand waters forever if a Department of Conservation theory is proved true. Full Story
It seems that the Risso’s story we posted on May 31st needs updating, as these dolphins were observed again from Greystones over the weekend of June 7th & 8th.
At a swimming hole some 30 miles north of Key West, volunteers tend day and night to five ailing pilot whales who stranded themselves for reasons unknown.
Another of the world’s rarest dolphins has been found dead on Auckland’s west coast. The New Zealand Maui dolphin, previously known as Hector’s dolphin, was taken to Massey University for an autopsy.
New Caledonia wants to set up a sanctuary for whales in its exclusive economic zone as part of a South Pacific regional initiative to protect the mammals, the French Pacific territory’s government said Thursday.
Canadian and U.S. scientists have decided against forcing a family reunion on a killer whale that has baffled observers by living alone off Canada’s Pacific Coast. Ful
Niue is expected to announce it will formally declare its entire Exclusive Economic Zone as a whale sanctuary. Full Story