The Japanese government will tighten its inspections of fish vendors to prevent dolphin and porpoise meat from being illegally sold as whale meat, an official said Thursday.
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Japan today threatened to walk out of the International Whaling Commission’s annual meeting next week if the group adopted a resolution Tokyo says puts too much emphasis on protecting whales.
Four Vancouver Island boaters spent a night trapped on the ocean when Luna, the lonely killer whale, kept blocking their vessel, shoving it away from shore.
Ireland mounted a fresh bid this week to force Britain to shut down a controversial nuclear fuel manufacturing plant by taking its concerns about pollution to an international arbitration tribunal in The Hague.
Norway defended its whale hunts but said it had scant hope of winning support at an international meeting next week for its policy on whaling. Full Story<
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
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.