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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
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, 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. |
19-
23 April 2015
A
pod of three to five Killer Whales,
Orca
orcinus, were spotted in Pentland
Firth, Orkney.
FORUM
NEWS
Marine Wildlife
of the North-east Atlantic Ocean Mailing Groups
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Marine
Wildlife of the North-east Atlantic Ocean
Yahoo
Group
New
Group:
http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/Glaucus
British
Marine Life Study Society
facebook
Page:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/glaucus/
This
is designed for quick less important chatty news items. Photographs can
be uploaded quickly which is only possible on the Yahoo Group by going
to the web page.
Images can be
uploaded to flickr.
http://www.flickr.com/groups/glaucus/
Wet
Thumb (Marine Aquariology) Forum Link
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Lots
of marine wildlife reports from Shetland on facebook
Photographs
include undersea, sea mammals and birds.
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on the image to connect |
All
reports by Andy Horton unless the credits are given
to
other observers or reporters.
Cornish
Marine Wildlife (Ray Dennis Records) 2009
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