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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15 June 2007
We have discovered what appears to be a mature female "berried" specimen of the Slipper Lobster, Scyllarus arctus, from SW Ireland. It was taken in a lobster pot just north of Inis Tuaisceart by local fisherman Edward Moore on board the 'Mystique Dawn'. We have kept it alive in a tank in Dingle Oceanworld.
This would appear to be the first record of this species from Irish waters. Records from off Cornwall are rare with about 27 records off Cornwall (mostly around the Isles of Scilly ) and off Plymouth (Devon). 

This crustacean that is also called the Spanish Cape Lobster is normally found in more southerly waters rarely found further north than the Azores and usually caught at depths of between 30 and 150 metres. Half the females have been discovered to be carrying eggs (="berried"). 

2 June 2007
Adur was one of the UK leaders in presenting an environmental exhibition of World Oceans Day, Shoreham-by-Sea, with exhibits hosted by local experts and enthusiasts of the undersea world. Live lobsters and crabs, a rock pool aquarium, the whale and dolphin exhibition, a touch table of strandline exhibits found on the shore and other interactive displays was on display under the marquee on on Coronation Green overlooking the River Adur by the Footbridge. 
 

Adur World Oceans Day was run by a committee comprising representatives of the British Marine Life Study Society, West Sussex County Council, the Sea Watch Foundation, Friends of Shoreham Beach, Friends of Widewater Lagoon, Shoreham Greenpeace and other groups, with support from Adur District Council. 
Shoreham Herald Adur Festival Launch Photographs
 

BMLSS Hermit Crabs
Other Hermit Crabs

27 May 2007
 

In this brilliant sequence of photographs, Nic Davies (Splashdown Direct.com), captures a European Otter, Lutra lutra, in the process of capturing a Snake Pipefish, Entelurus aequoreus, on the Isle of Mull (map), Argyll and Bute, Inner Hebrides, SW Scotland. 
BMLSS Pipefish
 
 

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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.
 
 

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:
 

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)
 

Coastal Plankton 
Photo Guide for European Seas

by Otto Larink & Wilfried Westheide

reviewed by Wim van Egmond
 

ISBN  0-9522831-5-8 Available from:

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