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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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.
 

Snake Pipefish washed up at Immingham on the River Humber estuary.  Report and Photograph by Martin Hopper BMLSS Pipefish

28 January 2007

21 January 2007
The huge 276 metre long container vessel Napoli was deliberately grounded one mile off Branscombe Bay, Lyme Bay, Devon, on the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site. The ship contained 1650 tonnes of fuel oil plus diesel and some of this leaked over the following days causing an oil slick several kilometres long and fatally oiling at least 600 sea birds, mostly Guillemots in the first four days. 

BBC News Reports:
Stranding
Oiled Birds
Oil Slick

BMLSS Oil Disasters page
 

14 January 2007
TwoTriggerfish, Balistes capriscus, were washed ashore dead on Croyde Beach, North Devon.

A Triggerfish, Balistes capriscus, was washed on the beach at Aberdyfi  (=Aberdovey) in north-west Wales. It was dead with its eyes missing but otherwise intact and was estimated to weigh about 500 grams.

12 - 14 January 2007
I found a fresh dead Triggerfish, Balistes capriscus, on Porthtowan beach in Cornwall. It was about  30 cm long. Two days later I found another one twice the size of the first one. 

10 January 2007
I found a dead Triggerfish, Balistes capriscus, after the tide had just turned the way down to Liniclate beach on the Isle of Benbecula in the Outer Hebrides, western Scotland. Triggerfish are not so often found this far north. 

A dead Triggerfish, Balistes capriscus, was found on Constantine Bay beach, north Cornwall. (SW 858 748)

8 January 2007
A Ray's Bream, Brama brama, was caught by professional fisherman Björn Österling, off south-west Sweden in a bottom net. It weighed 1.36 kg with a total length (including caudal fin) of 52 cm. 

Report by Kent Andersson

Fiske-Kent / American Fisheries Society

Previous Report with Photograph

6 January 2007 Two freshly dead Triggerfish, Balistes capriscus, was discovered on to Ynyslas Beach near Aberystwyth, Wales with Goose Barnacles and By-the-Wind Sailors, Velella.  Report and Photograph by  Chris Bainger (Shrewsbury)

1 January 2007

Common Starfish on the chalk bedrock at Seaford
Photograph by Wednesday Livingstone

31 December 2006
A dead Triggerfish, Balistes capriscus, was discovered on Rottingdean beach east of Brighton amongst dozens of dead Starfish, Asteria rubens. 

26 December 2006
Three dead Triggerfish, Balistes capriscus, were discovered on Perranporth beach, south Cornwall.

BMLSS Triggerfish

Marine Wildlife of the North-east Atlantic Ocean Mailing Groups

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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.

Photographs can now be directly uploaded to:

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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