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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16 May 2007
A large Tiger Prawn has gone on display at the Blue Reef Aquarium, Newquay, Cornwall, after being caught in the nets of a Cornish fishing boat. The rare prawn was discovered 23 miles off the Lizard, south Cornwall, by fisherman Jim Helliwell. It is believed to have escaped from a French shrimp fishery as a larvae and survived in the English Channel. An adult Tiger Prawn will grow up to 30 cm long.
Blue Reef spokesman David Waines said: "We've done some research and it appears that this is the seventh large foreign prawn recorded in British and Irish waters since records began. We understand that virtually all of those have been found since the 1980s and experts believe they are escapees from shrimp fisheries off the coast of France.

In the period 31 October 2005 to  8 December 2006 there were seven Oceanic Pufferfish recorded in Cornwall, compared to 17 in Cornwall and about 40 in the whole of Britain and Ireland from about 1760 to 2004.  In this same 13 months there were three found stranded in Ireland and three caught by French fishermen in Biscay.

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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.
 

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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
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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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