Animal rights activists brought their battle to stop the Makah tribe from conducting its traditional gray whale hunt to a federal appellate court yesterday, arguing that the United States is violating environmental laws by allowing it to go forward.
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A federal judge ordered the National Science Foundation on Monday to stop firing sound blasts into the Gulf of California because it harms whales. Full Story: http://www.modbee.com/24hour/healthscience/story/595685p-4624721c.html
Campaigners are tracking marine mammals in an effort to find out how many are being killed by fishing nets. More than 120 dolphin and porpoise carcasses were found on the beaches of Devon and Cornwall between January and April this year.
A California commission has voted to create the largest system of marine reserves off the U.S. west coast. Effective January 1, 2003, the decision sets aside 132 square nautical miles (175 square miles) within the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary
A 20-million-year-old fossil of a whale has been found in the River Murray region. Full Story
A newborn killer whale has been identified in the San Juan Islands, boosting the population of the Puget Sound orcas by one this year. Full Story: http://www.thesunlink.com/news/2002/october/10234orca.html
It’s no surprise that catches are good for the shrimp-laden boats plying the upper Gulf of California; they’re fishing in a nationally protected marine reserve. Full Story: http://www.whaling.com/p/a4/c30161b6eb89.html?id=f9a60e
Kamogawa Sea World has successfully impregnated two dolphins by artificial insemination, becoming the first center in Japan to do so, the park’s marine biology institute said Tuesday. Full Story: http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn2
The bodies of four little-known beaked whales, believed to be Sowerby’s beaked whales (Mesoplodon bidens), were found washed up off Pico in the Azores, in late July this year. The deaths are so far unexplained, but concerns have been raised that the
The battle to save the Westcountry’s hunted dolphins could see a much expected breakthrough as a European Parliament commissioner has promised to consider urgent action. For more than two months, Adrian Sanders, Lib-Dem MP for Torbay, has been pressing for an in-depth debate on the plight of dolphins with European Fisheries Commissioner Franz Fischler. Full