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MARINE
LIFE NEWS
Reports
of marine wildlife from all around the British Isles, with pollution incidents
and conservation initiatives as they affect the flora and fauna of the
NE Atlantic Ocean.
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18
February 2007
About
thirty Sea Mice (a large polychaete
worm), Aphrodite aculeata,
were washed up on Camber
Sands (near Rye,
East Sussex) about two hours after the high spring tide.
11
February 2007
Thousands
of Snake Pipefish,
Entelurus
aequoreus, were washed up dead and alive
on the north-east coast of England after being blown in by easterly winds.
I received an unprecedented eleven reports in one day.
Multiple
Reports Page
BMLSS
Pipefish
BMLSS
Snake Pipefish Reports
4 February
2007
A
7.5 metres (TL) long Basking Shark,
Cetorhinus
maximus,
2.3
tons gutted, was landed by a Dutch trawler
in Denmark. The liver weighed 400 kg.
BMLSS
Basking Sharks
3 February
2007
It
was a most extraordinary report of a Peacock
Butterfly that Mark
Lee rescued from a rock
pool on the Welsh coast at Newgale
in Pembrokeshire.
31 January
2007
Fishermen
Lee Allen and Gary Cann caught a 95 kg (210
lb)
Porbeagle
Shark, Lamna
nasus, in a net set for Bass
over night in St Ouen's Bay (west coast of Jersey), half a mile off the
beach. In the weeks previously several Bass
had been bitten in half in their nets. The fish was sold for over £200.
It is unusual for Porbeagle Sharks
to be caught in the winter months, and and they are usually caught in the
summer in the southern part of the English Channel.
Marine
Wildlife of the North-east Atlantic Ocean Yahoo Group (Main Group)
BMLSS
Sharks
30
January 2007
A
Killer
Whale, Orcinus orca, was spotted
in the Firth of Forth (Firth on the east coast of Scotland, north of Edinburgh)
at first by maintenance workers on the Forth
Rail Bridge. The Killer Whale
was spotted feeding on the local seals.
It was last seen off Hound
Point (near Dalmeny) 2.5 km east of the Forth
Rail Bridge.
BMLSS
Cetacea
27-28
January 2007
After
the gales even more (at least seven over the weekend) reports of Snake
Pipefish,
Entelurus aequoreus,
were received from the east coast of
England from Northumberland to Essex. Some were washed up dead and others
were returned to the sea alive.
BMLSS
Pipefish
FORUM
NEWS
Marine Wildlife
of the North-east Atlantic Ocean Mailing Groups
With
the closure of Smart Groups at the end of November
2006 most of the 7500+ messages have been
filed at:
Marine
Wildlife of the North-east Atlantic Ocean Jiglu
http://www.Jiglu.com/spaces/glaucus/
For
ongoing messages please transfer to the Yahoo forum as I think you will
find that easier to use.
Marine
Wildlife of the North-east Atlantic Ocean Yahoo Group
New
Group: http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/Glaucus
Images
can be uploaded to flickr.
http://www.flickr.com/groups/glaucus/
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All
reports by Andy Horton unless the credits are given
to
other observers or reporters.
Cornish
Marine Wildlife (Ray Dennis Records) 2005
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GALLERY
Each
month, at least one special marine image will be published from images
sent to the BMLSS. This
can be of the seashore, undersea world or any aspect of the marine natural
world, especially the underwater life, but not restricted to life beneath
the waves. Topical inclusions may be included instead of the most meritorious,
and images will be limited to the NE Atlantic Ocean and adjoining seas,
marine and seashore species and land and seascapes.
Photographs
can now be directly uploaded to:
flickr
BRITISH
MARINE LIFE GALLERY
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Shore
Topography Series
The
name of the particular coast should be included and the grid reference,
if known. Print photographs can be included in Exhibitions
and on the BMLSS Web Sites and electronic publications. Electronic images
in *.JPG format can also be considered for the web site. They should not
exceed 200K in size.
The
River
Walks TV company with Charlie Dimmick
filmed on 15 June
2006 on Lancing beach (at the Shoreham
end near Widewater), referred to as Shoreham-by-Sea,
featured
shrimping with Peter
Talbot-Elsden (British
Marine Life Study Society).
Series
that sees Charlie Dimmock
walk the waterways of Southern England. In the last of the series West
Sussex is her destination. The country around the River
Adur offers up its secrets, including the
secret film-making tradition of Shoreham to Charlie. On her walk from the
sea to the South Downs she visits the birthplace of Sussex aviation and
tries her hand at shrimping.
BMLSS
Shrimping
Shore
Topography Portfolio
flickr
Coastal
Images
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Species
Study - 1
17
February 2007
I
found what I think is Janolus hyalinus
in a warm, shallow, sandy-bottomed pool in Belle
Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast. The shallow pool has coralline
algae covered boulders sitting in it and this specimen was found underneath
one of those boulders. This pool is within one hundred yards of the
Salerie Corner quay on the south side of Belle Greve Bay.
Report
& Photograph by Richard
Lord (Guernsey)
Sealord
Photography
More
Information on the Sea Slug Forum
Sea
Slug Forum Species Index
BMLSS
Nudibranchs
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Species
Study - 2
Red
specimen of the Long-spined Bullhead Taurulus
bubalis from Bangor Pier, County Down,
Northern Ireland. There are piles of boulders along the back of the pier
as a sea defence with massive gaps in between them. I would normally fish
down between these to see what species of fish are about. All sorts turn
up .
Photograph
by Ronald
BMLSS
Bullhead
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DIARY
In
chronological order, the most recent events are at the top of the page.
Events open to the public, free or for a nominal charge only are included.
Most Seminars need to be booked in advance.
See
the venues for talks and activities in the left hand column.
Click
on the images (on-line) for the latest information.
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BIOSIS
Conference Calendar for Zoology
(Major
Link of all biological conferences around the world)
Sunday
25 March 2007 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Fish Identification
Venue:
Shipwreck Heritage Centre and Underwater World, Hastings.
Kent
and Sussex Seasearch are holding a Seasearch Specialist course:
An
introduction to fish identification for divers led by Dr Frances Dipper,
author of the book `British Sea Fishes'.
Introduction
to the form and function of fishes, life history, feeding and reproduction
range of fishes seen by divers in British and Irish waters
How
to identify fish under water and a visit to the aquarium's temperate water
tanks
Conservation
of fish in our waters.
This
is a basic, introductory course, aimed at divers wishing to improve their
fish recognition skills, and to take part in Seasearch surveys. However
you do not need to be a Seasearch diver to attend.
Clicking
on the logo above and below this text will link you to the Seasearch web
pages with more details of their Training Courses etc.
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If
you find a LIVE stranded or injured whale or dolphin on the beach you must
send for help QUICKLY. A whale or dolphin stranding is an emergency and
the speed of response by a professional rescue team is perhaps the most
crucial factor in determining whether or not an animal can be returned
to the sea alive.
EMERGENCY
NUMBERS FOR LIVE CETACEAN STRANDINGS
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WALES
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SCOTLAND
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CORNWALL
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PUBLICATIONS
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WEB PAGES
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BOOKS
PUBLICATIONS
NEW
BOOK:
The
Gulf Stream
by
Bruno Voituriez
Publisher:
UNESCO
ISBN:
92-3-103995-4
222
pages, figures, glossary, bibliography
The
Gulf Stream
Amid
contemporary scenarios of potential climatic catastrophes and global warming
that might be imagined to bring a new ice age, the powerful image of the
Gulf Stream rising from the Florida Straits and flowing to the north Atlantic
inevitably provokes questions about its ecological significance and whether
it might ever stop.
JOURNALS:
Marbef
Outreach
Marine
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning
Newsletter
on biodiversity education, with a polar pullout for children with its focus
on the Arctic.
The
Marine
Biological Association of the United Kingdom launched a new full colour
magazine, GLOBAL MARINE ENVIRONMENT
in 2005, which will appeal to people who wish to read accurate, interesting
and entertaining articles about the world's oceans and its inhabitants.
Much
of the source material for this new magazine is the Journal
of the Marine Biological Association (JMBA). Whereas the journal is
full of excellent scientific papers, GLOBAL
MARINE ENVIRONMENT takes some of the most
interesting studies and, in full colour, writes a more understandable summary
of the findings.
The
first issue of Global Marine Environment
may be purchased in hard copy for £1.75 (see below) or downloaded
from the web at the following
address:
http://www.mba.ac.uk/PDF/mbaglobal%20news.pdf
Information
provided by Richard Lord
(Guernsey)
The Spring
2007 issue of the Marine Conservation Society
magazine includes a feature on the British Jellyfish.
Coastal
Plankton
Photo
Guide for European Seas
by
Otto Larink & Wilfried Westheide
reviewed
by Wim van Egmond
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ISBN 0-9522831-5-8
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Available from:
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WEB
SITES
NEW
Eastern
English Channel Habitat Atlas for Marine Resource Management
is
available for download from
http://charm.canterbury.ac.uk/atlas/pge.htm
Encyclopaedia
of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland
http://www.habitas.org.uk/marinelife/index.html?item=about
Marine
Fauna of Norway
http://www.seawater.no/fauna/e_index.htm
BMLSS:
Marine Life Articles in Publications (Link)
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SOCIETY
INFORMATION
The
British Marine Life Study Society are responsible for producing the journal
GLAUCUS,
which is the first publication exploring the marine life of the seas surrounding
the British Isles available to the general public. In
future, I expect the publication to be in an electronic format.
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