No-one knows how many common dolphins die each year in fishing gear in the Northeast Atlantic. From strandings data, French and UK scientists have calculated that it’s thousands. These deaths have been recorded each year for the last 30 years. That’s three decades of inadequate action.
Thousands of short-beaked common dolphins are being killed by fishing vessels targeting pelagic fish species in EU waters. This barbaric practice is referred to as ‘bycatch’ by the fishing industry.
Along with 17 million Brits, I ended the year watching in awe as Sir David Attenborough and the Blue Planet II team showed us spellbinding images of an underwater world “beyond our imagination”.
2017 has been a promising year in the fight against ocean plastic pollution. We’ve seen positive changes across all levels of society. From individuals protesting to their local authorities to organisations replacing single-use plastic with eco-friendly alternatives.
Life history concerns the timing and patterns of growth, survival, and reproduction of an organism. Parameters include gestation duration, physical size, brain size, growth rates, age of weaning, age of sexual maturity. Cetaceans exhibit some of the most fascinating life history traits among mammals and these traits set the stage for every facet of social living.
On one side of the marina was a sign welcoming visitors to this proud tourist destination, and inviting them to enjoy a spot of whale watching. On the other was a large mako shark, recently caught, strung up and bleeding on a gantry.
Well over 300 mostly common dolphins have been recorded washed up dead on the Atlantic coast of England, France and Ireland in the first two months of 2017.
Blue Planet Society are championing the black-legged kittiwake in Arkive’s 2017 #LoveSpecies campaign.
No-one knows how many common dolphins die each year in fishing gear in the Northeast Atlantic. From strandings data, French and UK scientists have calculated that it’s thousands. These deaths have been recorded each year for the last 30 years. That’s three decades of inadequate action.
Thousands of short-beaked common dolphins are being killed by fishing vessels targeting pelagic fish species in EU waters. This barbaric practice is referred to as ‘bycatch’ by the fishing industry.
Along with 17 million Brits, I ended the year watching in awe as Sir David Attenborough and the Blue Planet II team showed us spellbinding images of an underwater world “beyond our imagination”.
2017 has been a promising year in the fight against ocean plastic pollution. We’ve seen positive changes across all levels of society. From individuals protesting to their local authorities to organisations replacing single-use plastic with eco-friendly alternatives.
Life history concerns the timing and patterns of growth, survival, and reproduction of an organism. Parameters include gestation duration, physical size, brain size, growth rates, age of weaning, age of sexual maturity. Cetaceans exhibit some of the most fascinating life history traits among mammals and these traits set the stage for every facet of social living.
On one side of the marina was a sign welcoming visitors to this proud tourist destination, and inviting them to enjoy a spot of whale watching. On the other was a large mako shark, recently caught, strung up and bleeding on a gantry.
Well over 300 mostly common dolphins have been recorded washed up dead on the Atlantic coast of England, France and Ireland in the first two months of 2017.
Blue Planet Society are championing the black-legged kittiwake in Arkive’s 2017 #LoveSpecies campaign.
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