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Taiwan fishing vessels target dolphins as bait for sharks. Dolphins are being deliberately targeted by Taiwanese fishing vessels to use as bait to catch sharks, an Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) report has found. On just ...
EC must stop France and Spain from killing thousands of dolphins – NGOs warn that thousands of common dolphins in the Bay of Biscay face horrific deaths in fishing nets this winter if the EU ...
EC concern over bycatches of dolphins. EC Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius, has written to the Fisheries and Environment Ministers of 22 European Union Member States about the issue of incidental catches of dolphins and other marine ...
Citizen science to protect Scottish whales and dolphins Record numbers of volunteers took part in research expeditions organised by the Hebridean Whale and Dolphin Trust last year, helping to launch a new year-round programme of ...
Scottish bottlenose dolphins seen off Dutch coast. A recent unique sighting for the North Holland coast involved Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research scientist Jeroen Hoekendijk and fellow researchers from Wageningen Marine Research seeing two ...
New research on threats facing dolphins. A new scientific assessment of Hector’s and Māui dolphins has led to a revised understanding of their biology, their distribution and their main threats. NIWA (National Institute of Water ...
Three more rare dolphins accidently caught off NZ. The three Hector’s dolphins have been captured in a commercial trawl net off Banks Peninsula this week, bringing to seven the number of Hector’s caught in trawl ...
Rare dolphins accidently caught off New Zealand – Fisheries New Zealand has received two reports from commercial fishers of Hector’s dolphins caught during trawl fishing off the East Coast of the South Island this summer. ...
Dolphins are passing toxins to their young according to new research led by a marine scientist at the University of St Andrews. Dolphins in the northern Adriatic contain high levels of PCBs – highly toxic chemicals ...
Dutch measures implemented to prevent bycatch of seals. In 2020, all Cornelis Vrolijk pelagic vessels were equipped with escape panels in our fishing nets in order to prevent bycatch of seals. An article on the Cornelis ...
WWF-UK Comment on ICUN Red List – New assessments by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) released yesterday show 316 chondrichthyan species – sharks, rays and skates, and chimaeras – are now threatened with extinction. ...
Heroic Herring: “Ocean Uprising” game released ahead of EU Fishing Negotiations. A heroic herring hero swims through the ocean, evading voracious cod, dolphins and massive industrial trawlers in “Ocean Uprising”, an online game released by ...
Waste fishing gear threatens Ganges wildlife. Waste fishing gear in the River Ganges poses a threat to wildlife including otters, turtles and dolphins, new research shows. The study says entanglement in fishing gear could harm ...
Conservationists welcome new shark observation scheme. Conservation groups say a new scheme to install more drones and other non lethal surveillance tools at New South Wales beaches in Australia is a step in the right ...
Marine mammal mapping in Southern Hemisphere to aid conservation The IUCN Marine Mammal Protected Areas Task Force (“the Task Force”) has announced the completion and placing on its e-Atlas of two more ocean regions where ...
Seiche Ltd’s specialist team of personnel and equipment have mobilised to two key vessels on Ørsted’s Hornsea Two offshore wind farm site. Their purpose is to manage Ørsted’s commitment to ensure impacts to marine mammals ...
A report released by WWF in collaboration with Trygg Mat Tracking (TMT) with data and analytical support by Global Fishing Watch, shows for the first time exactly when, where and how unregulated fishing is happening ...
WWF’s River Dolphin River Initiative includes new Amazon river dolphin dashboard, collating two decades of population surveys and tagging On World River Dolphin Day, conservation group WWF is revealing the latest measures to better understand ...
NIWA’s research vessel Kaharoa is operating close to shore of the the Kapiti and Wanganui coast off New Zealand in the next few weeks as scientists carry out a survey of snapper, tarakihi, red gurnard ...
Sea turtle watching standard debuted by Friend of the Sea. Global certification standards body provides guidelines for sustainable observation of a wide range of sea turtle species Friend of the Sea, the preeminent global certification ...
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