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27
June 2015
Hudsonian
Whimbrel, Numenius
hudsonicus, (left) and Eurasian Whimbrel (right)
showing
difference in underwing colour
Photograph
by Jean-Paul
Charteris
RSPB
Pagham Nature Reserve
22
June 2015
A
young 3.5 metre long Sowerby's Beaked Whale,
Mesoplodon
bidens, stranded alive at the Port of
Ness,
Isle
of Lewis, Outer
Hebrides,
Scotland. The badly injured whale,
which died shortly after stranding, had a fractured jaw and this would
have prevented him from feeding, although otherwise he looked healthy.
Sowerby's
Beaked Whale is a rarely seen deep water species.
19
June 2015
A
Bluemouth
Rockfish,
Helicolenus
dactylopterus, was caught in a creel
off the Outer Hebrides,
western Scotland, whilst fishing for Nephrops
prawn (Scampi).
This is
a notable capture of a northern deep water small species of fish.
BMLSS
Bluemouth
16
June 2015
American
Lobster
Marine
Management Organisation
Image
A small
number of fishermen on the Sussex coast are reporting catches of non-native
American
Lobster,
Homarus
americanus, and Dungeness Crabs,
Metacarcinus
magister, in an area in the vicinity
of Brighton on the Sussex coast.
Captures
should be retained and it is illegal to return non-native species to the
sea. Report finds to to IFCA
or the MMO.
Dungeness
Crab
Photographs
by George Sutton
on
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News
facebook
This
crab was caught in nets off Brighton by George Sutton, who also caught
an American Lobster
on 19 June 2015.
BMLSS
Lobsters
BMLSS
Crabs
15
June 2015
A
Swordfish,
Xiphias
gladius, was
washed
up dying on Severn
Beach at the mouth of the River Seven where the Bristol Channel narrows.
It was two metres in length, including the long bill.
BMLSS
Swordfish Reports
June
2015
Thousands
of jellyfish have been reported off the south-western
and western coasts off Britain, notable off Dorset and Wales. By far the
most noticeable have been the large Barrel
Jellyfish, Rhizostoma octopus
but also the huge stinging Lion's Mane
Jellyfish,
Cyanea capillata.
Barrel
Jellyfish washed up at Sandbanks,
Dorset
Photographs
by Lisa Harris
The
diameter of the bell in these jellyfish were up to 75 cm.
BMLSS
Jellyfish
5 June
2015
An
adult Humpback
Whale, Megaptera
novaengliae, perished after becoming
entangled in rope of the north-east coast of Scotland. A fisherman spotted
the whale near the village of Helmsdale,
but the rescue attempts were thwarted by stormy seas. On the plus side,
there have been higher than normal sightings
of Humpback Whales
around the coast off Britain including one report from the Irish Sea off
Liverpool.
Seawatch
Foundation Humpback Whale Sightings Reports
2 June
2015
A
huge Halibut,
Hippoglossus
hippoglossus, over two metres in length
was captured on rod and line and released off the Lofoten
Isles, Norway.
28
May 2015
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Humpback
Whale
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Risso's
Dolphin
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Report
& Photographs by Paul
Semmens
A Humpback
Whale, Megaptera
novaeangliae, was spotted between the Isles
of Scilly and Land's
End from the Scillonian
III. This rare whale is rarely seen in
British seas, occasionally spotted from ships and boats on the whale's
travels from deep water off Iceland to off Africa. A
Risso's
Dolphin, Grampus
griseus,
was seen breaching
off Mousehole, Cornwall.
A White-beaked
Dolphin, Lagenorhyncus albirostris,
was spotted swimming off the Needles,
Isle of Wight. This is the first report from this area of sea of this dolphin
although a pod has been reported from Lyme
Bay fifty miles to the west.
BMLSS
Cetacea
Whales
& Dolphins in British Seas
13
May 2015
A
huge 59 kg (131 lb) Conger
Eel, Conger
conger, measuring 2.1 metres
long was brought into Plymouth
Fish Market having being caught in a trawl on open ground off the coast
of south Devon.
British
Conger Club
28
April 2015
Killer
Whales
Photographs
by Vivian Clark
Shetland
on Camera facebook
A pod
of four Killer Whales, Orca orcinus,
were spotted off Bigga
in Yell Sound, Shetland.
Killer
Whales are regular visitors to the seas around
these northernmost British archipelago, north of the Scottish mainland,
but it is not everybody who manages to see them. This
sighting was newsworthy because of the presence of a male with a folded
and limp fin (flopped towards the right), which should be erect and upright
as in the second photograph.
| Update
from Andy Foote
on this individual: Vivian Clark and Filipa
Samarra who leads the research on the Icelandic
Killer
Whales have been looking through photos from
old encounters and based on the scarring pattern on the saddle patch and
eye patch it looks likely that this is '13' in the Scotland ID catalogue.
That also fits with the association between the flopped male and the group
that '13' belonged to. He had a totally upright fin in 2010
and was first photographed with a flopped fin in 2012,
so it seems to have happened over a relatively short time. |
25
April 2015
A
pair of Common Dolphin
Delphinus delphis, spent
two hours swimming around Weymouth
Harbour for the appreciation of onlookers. Dolphins
live
off the Dorset coast and can be sometimes be seen from the shore, but it
is only rarely will they follow boats into harbour.
I
also managed to take a video of Dolphins swimming under Weymouth bridge,
Dorset. Louise Stevens posted original and has gone viral 34k views.....unbelievable
Posted by Stuart
Stevens on Sunday, 26 April 2015
Sea
Watch Foundation Cetacean Sighting Form
Video
by Stuart Stevens
BMLSS
Cetacea
19-
23 April 2015
A
pod of three to five Killer Whales,
Orca
orcinus, were spotted in Pentland
Firth, Orkney.
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