This morning we awake to a very strange landscape, one formed some four million years ago, and to this eye, very little changed since. Dormant volcanoes dominate the view from our anchorage some 500 metres off shore. Beneath them lies a barren brown dusty land. We are in the Baia da Palmeira, a small well
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The only way to save marine mammals from unacceptably high death rates may be temporary fishing bans, UK conservationists say. Full Story
An endangered North Atlantic right whale spotted last summer entangled in fishing gear was seen again, still snarled in fishing line, off Cape Cod this week. F
Norway, the only nation that hunts whales commercially, gave the green light this week for whale meat exports to Denmark’s Faroe Islands, expanding trade despite an international ban.
On 22nd March a dolphin stranded on Fermoyle Beach, Castlegregory, Co. Kerry. The animal, suspected to be a striped dolphin, was found by a visitor from Dublin.
A consultation document, the “UK Small Cetacean Bycatch Response Strategy”, looks at ways to reduce mortality rates amongst dolphins, porpoises and other similar marine creatures.
New measures to help prevent dolphin deaths caused by fishing have been published by the government. Full Story
UK fishing fleets may soon have to use hi-tech equipment to keep dolphins and porpoises out of their nets. Full Story
After enduring several lean, difficult years, the gray whale population is rebounding, looking fat and happy as their annual northern migration past Oregon begins.
Australia has welcomed the Fiji government’s announcement it will declare the entire Exclusive Economic Zone of Fiji as a whale sanctuary. Full Story