Ocean Sentry
And possibly 20-40 white-sided dolphins have been brutally and cruelly slaughtered today at the killing bay at Sandágerði just South of the capital Tórshavn.
May, 2019
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29 May
Canada’s 2019 seal “hunt” has ended
According to the Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans, 32,102 harp seal pups were killed. In just one day early in April, 5,558 seal pups were killed.
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28 May
‘Death blow’: Corals, algae don’t acclimatise to more acidic seas
Coral and algae species subjected to more acidic seawater showed no acclimatization to the new conditions for over a year, a new study has found, suggesting that vulnerable reefs may not be able to adapt fast enough to cope with climate change. With oceans absorbing about 22 million tonnes of carbon …
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28 May
More fishing vessels chasing fewer fish, new study finds
A new analysis of global fishing data has found the world’s fishing fleet doubled in size over the 65-years to 2015, but the amount of efforts expanded the catch fell more than 80 per cent.
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27 May
Once again, the shores of the Faroe Islands ran red with blood this summer
On Sunday 26 May in the evening, for the fifth time this year, hunters living in the town of Hvalba in the Faroe Islands, a remote archipelago north of Denmark, drove a pod of 61 pilot whales that were swimming close to the shore near Hvalbiarfjörður.
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27 May
Shocking photos show piles of dead sharks caught In fishing nets on Great Barrier Reef
Photos have emerged showing how gill nets on the Great Barrier Reef are leading to dozens of sharks being killed. “There is nothing illegal in any of these images and in some ways that makes them more disturbing”.
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27 May
Dead gray whale found near Kalaloch is 24th on Pacific NW coast this year
The running tally of dead gray whales now stands at 64 West Coast-wide. That includes three found in Alaska, 21 in Washington, three in Oregon and 37 in California.
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24 May
Hundreds of dead porpoises found on Germany’s Baltic coast
Germany’s porpoises are critically endangered and hundreds are washing up dead. Scientists point the finger mainly at fishing operations.
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24 May
Alaska’s third dead gray whale of the year reported on Kodiak coast
Another dead gray whale has been found in Alaska, this time along the coast of Kodiak Island. At least 60 have been found so far from Mexico to here.
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23 May
Climate change is driving plankton towards the poles, study says
Communities of zooplankton – microscopic drifting animals that underpin marine ecosystems – are migrating poleward in response to climate change, a study finds.
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23 May
The Mediterranean sea is now home to a giant plastic garbage “island”
The Mediterranean Sea has a new “island”. Unfortunately, this is not an island of idyllic beaches and olive groves, it’s a giant patch of floating plastic trash that’s accumulated off the coast of Corsica, a mountainous Mediterranean island.
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22 May
Dead whale washed ashore in Italy with stomach full of plastic
A juvenile sperm whale washed ashore this week in Italy, where it was discovered to have a stomach full of plastic waste.