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Volume 3 The
second issue for 1999 was sent out on 24 March 1999. The Bearded
Seal was the feature on the front cover, with all the other marine
wildlife news. Other features include Predatory Sharks, On Rocky Shores,
the Moon Jellyfish and the National Aquarium (at Plymouth) and Records
of Marine Life.
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TORPEDO
35
May
1999
Electronic News Service ISSN 1464-8156
The first question I am often asked is: what is a marine collector?
I think this is best described by the Nobel prize winning author John Steinbeck when writing about Ed 'Doc' Ricketts of Cannery Row fame in which he wrote 'commercial fishermen harvest the sea to feed men's bodies and a marine collector harvests the sea to feed men's minds'.provided by the late John Barker (Shoreham-by-Sea)
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The second Shorewatch Newsletter for 1999 was
sent out to members on 24 March 1999.
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
1999
Wembury
Bay Rockpool Rambles
Contact
Wembury Marine Centre Tel: 01752 862538
Leaflet
from Devon Wildlife Trust Tel: 01392 279244.
Monday 10th May 1999
The Marine
Forum
for environmental issues
Fisheries & the Environment Conference
Brunei
Gallery Lecture Theatre, School of Oriental & African Studies
Russell
Square, London.
Contact:
Dr.
Bob Earll
Tel/Fax:
01531 890415
EMail:
bob.earll@dial.pipex.com
Conference
Fee £85 Academics £75 Marine Forum
Members £65
Booking
in advance is essential
15 May 1999
Len Nevell (BMLSS) will be presenting the aquarium display at Brighton Low Tide 1999. The exhibits are collected by Sussex Divers. The exhibition will take place in a dome on Brighton sea front between the piers.
Jim Partridge (Monteum) Ltd will be presenting a display of marine creatures at Coronation Green, Shoreham-by-Sea.
For details of the other events, please access the following web site:
River
Ocean Research & Education (Brighton)
RORE Tel:
01273 234032
8 June 1999
BMLSS
Exhibition & Official Links
VISITORS CENTRE
Coastal
Visitors Centre
Salisbury
Gardens
Dudley
Road
Ventnor
Isle
of Wight
PO38
1EJ
Tel:
01983 855400
EMail:
coastcent@iwight.gov.uk
The
Centre covers many aspects of the coastal zone, which include coastal flora
and fauna, marine and inter-tidal archaeology, coastal defence and particularly
coastal instability issues.
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.
24 April 1999
The Environmental Agency announce that the stocks of migrating Atlantic Salmon, Salmo salmo, are at a frightening low level. A figure of 1200 was mentioned which would indicate that the fish was in danger of extinction in the wild.
17 April 1999
1000+ protestors lined the chalk cliffs at Telscombe
Cliffs, near Brighton, Sussex, at plans by Southern Water to build
a huge sewage works that would destroy a valuable chalk cliff-edge wildlife
site and threaten the prominent 30 metres high chalk cliffs a designated
SSSI site because of its national geological importance.
11 April 1999
A pod of 3 Killer
Whales, Orcinus orca, (a bull, a female and a calf) were
off Sumburgh Head, the most southerly tip of the Shetland Islands. On 1
April, A Minke
Whale, Balaenoptera acutorostrata, was seen in the same
area.
Shetland
Wildlife News Web Site
4 April 1999
Several thousand of the Common
Starfish, Asterias rubens, were washed up dead on the northern
point of the Isle of Man over the Easter period.
Top of the Page
FORUM
The Marine Life Forum is for observations and discussion items. The information of interest of other readers should be EMailed to:
EMail Glaucus@hotmail.com and marked "Forum" in the title of the message.
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April 1999Can you identify this sea anemone?
I need help to identify a sea anemone I saw in my last dive. I live in Spain, in the northwest coast, in a region called Galicia. In this land, the coast form large estuaries, called "rias", in the mouth of the rivers. In the "rias" there are a
great amount of organic particles, the temperature is lower and the water less saline than open ocean. This conditions are good for aquatic cultivation, and the Mytilus galloprovincialis grows well. I dive the last time beneath a cultivation unity of this mollusc, called here "vatea", to a deep of 13 metres (at 42º46,488´N/8º57,651´W). The bottom is muddy.In this habitat I saw a white sea anemone bigger than I have ever seen before.
The central disc was more or less 15 cm of diameter, and its tentacles spanned 30-35 cm.
POPULAR PUBLICATIONS
The Aquarist & Pondkeeper was not available for April 1999.
NEW BOOKS
None received.
BOOK REVIEWS
The Biology of Rocky Shores
by Colin Little and J.A.Kitching
Oxford University Press 1996, reprinted 1998.
ISBN 0-19-854935-0
The book is an introduction to the study of marine rocky shores in the temperate zone. It is designed to encourage students and others to couple enormous intellectual rewards with the pleasure of working in some of the last easily accessible but relatively unspoilt places, and can be used as a basis for field courses, project work, or for lectures.
Every rockpooler will quickly realise that some knowledge of the environmental conditions of the shore are necessary (even if it just means arriving when the tide is low) to get full enjoyment of a visit to the coast. The more often the rockpooler visits the shore to study the creatures in their natural environment (ecology), the more observations he makes and the more questions that are posed.
This book is an excellent choice to further your knowledge of the shore and to answer some of questions from the novice level to quite advanced biological speculation.
It is well written and most readers would regard it as a text book, although it is nowhere like the dried up text books of the past, it does not quite convey the magic of the intertidal zone quite like C.M. Yonge’s “The Seashore” first published in 1949.
Essential reading.
Link to the Contents List on the BMLSS Web Site
Advanced rockpoolers will need a companion identification guide and this book is complimented by
Handbook of the
Marine Fauna of North-west Europe
Oxford University Press 1995
ISBN 0-19-854055-8This is the most comprehensive guide available, but it is illustrated with line drawings. Even, in this book not all the species are included, although 99% of the seashore creatures are described.
FEATURED SPECIES
Sue Daly produces a Creature Feature every month on her web site.
We had orginally planned to bring this service to our members.
However, as Sue is already producing this series, I have decided to devote
my energies to producing other information.
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Featured Species Trial DataBase: Sagartia troglodytes Sea Anemone
PHOTOGRAPHS
The BMLSS will be presenting the Annual Photographic Exhibition to celebrate WORLD OCEANS DAY on 8 June 1999.
Print photographs should be sent in to Glaucus
House from March 1999. They could also be used on the BMLSS web sites.
However, if you have a large selection of your
own photographs, I would suggest that you should arrange your own exhibitions
at a Local Library or similar venue. We will help to advertise the event.
World Oceans Day: Details of the BMLSS Exhibitions:
SEASHORE PHOTOGRAPHS
This is a simple project or request to members and readers of this Bulletin. It is to take pictures of the coast when you are next down on the shore. Even general views have value, but ideally we would like photographs of the shore showing the type of rock, topography and rock pools, dominant fauna, and information that cannot be described adequately by words on the Report Cards. 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 *.JPEG format can also be considered for the web site. Transparency photographs are the best choice of film but these cannot be transferred to the web pages at the present time, but these will be suitable in the future.
Limpet and 'scars' on the sandstone at Cullercoats, Tyneside.
Photograph by Andy Horton
GATEWAY: LINKS TO OTHER SITES
The British
Marine Life Study Society Web Site has been included as an Encylopaedia
Britannica Recommended Site and included on the BBC On-line Internet
Guide.
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| Rye Harbour Nature Reserve | Interesting |
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The Water Web Ring |
| Friends of the Earth SSSI Navigator | Useful site to identify SSSIs |
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BIOSIS
and the Zoological Society of London |
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For young scientists. Some services are free, others require a subscription |
| Dungeness,
Kent, England
Orford Ness: Coastal Ecology of a Shingle Bank (excellent references) Rye Harbour Nature Reserve Shoreham Beach |
Shingle Beach sites |
| Aquarium Net | Internet Publication for aquarists with extensive marine coverage. Very Good. |
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| Fishing News Homepage | Recommended, especially for books. |
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Contains information
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photographs. |
| Seaweb | Links and News Bulletins |
| ENN (Environmental) News *** | News and campaigns |
| Planet Ark (Reuters) | News |
| Sea Mammal Research Unit | Update on seal populations,
diets,
telemetry etc. |
| Profusion Search Method | One of the best Search
methods for
environment and serious information. Multiple Search Engines. |
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Tom's Guide to New England
Sharks, USA |
Really useful stuff on shark recognition. |
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THE MINIMUM STARTING FUNDS REQUIRED FOR THE
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