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27
November - 7 December 2018
The Sei
Whale, Balaenoptera
borealis, that visited the harbour
of Hobro (Ørnedalsbugten,
an area of the Mariager
Fjord waterway that travels from Hobro to the Kattegat
sea), Denmark, eventually perished. It looked emaciated and ill and it
made no attempt to swim away to the open sea.
23
November 2018
White-beaked
Dolphin
Photograph
by Justin Pollard
A dolphin
washed ashore dead at Pevensey
Bay, East Sussex, was discovered to be an unexpected White-beaked
Dolphin, Lagenorhyncus
albirostris, that is not normally
found this far east up the English Channel.
BMLSS
Cetacea
CSIP:
How to report a stranding
14
November 2018
Amongst
the debris washed ashore on Chesil
Beach, Dorset, included Goose Barnacles,
Lepas
anserifera, Lepas pectinata and Lepas
hilli, and the rarer pelagic species Concoderma
virgatum.
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Barnacles
12
November 2018
A
surprise Risso’s
Dolphin, Grampus
griseus, was spotted swimming in the
tidal River
Ouse (map)
(tidal tributary of the River Humber) over 30 miles away from the North
Sea. Any dolphin
would be a surprise that far upstream of a substantial estuary but the
pelagic Risso’s Dolphin is
usually only seen to the west and north of the British Isles and does not
normally inhabit the North Sea.
BMLSS
Cetacea
31
October 2018
Fraser
Hynd from Torryburn spotted a two metre long
Bluefin Tuna,
Thunnus
thynnus, on the beach at Culross
in Fife while out walking with his wife Abigail.
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Tuna Reports
7
October 2018
Angler
Jeff
Fisk caught the southern fish known in England
as the Pompano
(also called a Derbio),
Trachinotus
ovatus, during a fishing competition off
Chesil
Beach, Dorset. It weighed 216 grams (7.6 oz). Other fish caught
at the same time were Garfish
and Mackerel.
Derbio
is a warm water fish that is only rarely seen or caught in British seas,
a moderately common shoaling fish in shallow water in areas of surge in
the Mediterranean
Sea and the adjacent Atlantic shores.
This small fish (up to 35 cm long) is found in clear waters over sand or
mud bottoms in the surf zone and also caught by anglers from rocky shores
from the Bay
of Biscay southwards.
Previous
Record 2014
3
October 2018
Six
large Edible Crabs,
Cancer
pagurus, were landed at Littlehampton,
Sussex, from 25 miles offshore in the English Channel. The largest
one weighed 4.4 kg (9 lb 4 oz) with a carapace width estimated
at about a foot (300 cm).
Reports
of Large Crabs
British
Marine Life News 2017
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