Japan’s annual ‘scientific’ whaling operation in the North Pacific has yielded vast quantities of whale meat. 100 minke, 50 Bryde’s, 39 sei and five sperm whales have provided 1,300 tonnes of whale products.
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On September 25, 2002, NMFS received a request from BPXA for a renewal of an LOA issued on September 28, 2000 (65 FR 58265) and reissued on December 14, 2001 (66 FR 65923, December 21, 2001), for the taking of marine mammals incidental to oil production o
A marine mammal protection ship carrying 44 crew left Hobart, Tasmania today for Antarctica where her crew will attempt to track down a Japanese whaling fleet.
Endangered whales are to be given right of way in North Atlantic waters after collisions with ships became the primary cause of their death. Full Story<
Paleontologists from the South Australian Museum have unearthed more parts of a 20 million-year-old fossilised whale, in the cliffs of the Murray River at Blanchetown, north-east of Adelaide.
Shrimper Danny Withey’s catch of the day dwarfed the thousands of tiny shellfish he’s been hauling in most of his life. Withey and his crew pulled up a 360-pound skull that may be that of a sperm whale on the fifth day out on a 28-day search for shrimp in
A coalition of environmental groups sued the National Marine Fisheries Service on Wednesday over its decision not to list the struggling Puget Sound killer whale population under the Endangered Species Act.
– Up to 85 percent of loggerhead sea turtle hatchlings found on beaches in the southern United States are female, a finding that researchers say has implications for the recovery of the threatened species. The data is part of a large scale project to expl
Britain said this week it might have to dump radioactive pollution stockpiled at its Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant into the Irish Sea after 2006, as tanks storing the waste age and may become unsafe.
A blue whale carcass washed up on the south side of Male’ island on the evening of Monday 9 December. It was rotten and rather smelly, so was cut up and removed for burial on another island the following morning. The head was missing, but some throat pleats were visible. The remains measured 11m, and