A recent study of organochlorine levels (pesticides, PCBs etc) in bottlenose dolphins from the Shannon estuary has shown that although concentrations are elevated they are not at levels thought to compromise the health of the dolphins. Dr Simon Berrow co-ordinator of the study said ‘ultimately all our industrial, domestic and other discharges end up in
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The annual European Union fisheries negotiations – whose outcome this year could have a devastating impact on fishing communities, particularly in Scotland – are strange affairs.
The Australian Conservation Foundation says an endangered species of whale is being harmed by seismic oil and gas exploration in Australia’s southern waters. <
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.
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.