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Migrating whale sharks make pit stops at oil & gas rigs, which act as artificial reefs attracting plankton for the sharks to feed on. Sadly, this puts the gentle giants at risk of ship strikes and chemical pollution. www.sciencenews.org/article/whal...

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The 2025 Norwegian 🇳🇴 minke whale 🐳 quota has been set to 1406‼️ Up from 1157 last year. In 2024, 11 vessels participated in the Norwegian minke whaling campaign in the North Atlantic. 415 minkes were slaughtered. www.highnorthnews.com/en/increased...

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The master of a German registered supertrawler ‘Helen Mary’ has been been charged with 7 fisheries offences at Cork district court in Ireland today 🇮🇪 The vessel will only be released on payment of a €425,000 bond. thefishingdaily.com/irish-fishin...

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Wild fish can tell humans apart when they dress differently. 🐟 Researchers say the study, which involved training bream to follow a specific diver for treats, could change how we treat fish. 🎣 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Excellent map of oil and gas industry spills polluting UK seas from The Ocean Alliance Against Offshore Drilling - coordinated by @oceanauk.bsky.social 👏

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157 false killer whales have stranded on a remote beach in Tasmania. 💔 All attempts to refloat the survivors have been hampered by the ocean conditions, and the decision has been made to euthanize them to prevent further suffering. apnews.com/article/aust...

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Supertrawler Helen Mary (116m) has been detained in Irish waters for having a defective ladder. European Fisheries Control Agency (EFCA) ordered the vessel to the Port of Cork for inspection, where a man was detained for alleged fishery breaches. www.rte.ie/news/regiona...

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Humpback Whale Song Shares a Key Pattern With Human Language That Might Make It Easier for the Animals to Learn. Despite humans & whales being separated by millions of years of evolution, our vocalisations follow the same principle outlined in Zipf’s law. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/h...

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Five Opportunities for Ocean Progress in 2025 1. Protecting the High Seas 🌊 2. Tackling harmful fisheries subsidies 🎣 3. Securing a Global Plastics Treaty 🗑️ 4. Stop Deep Sea Mining ⛏️ 5. Delivering the EU Ocean Pact 🇪🇺 www.wri.org/insights/opp...

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Study suggests algal blooms disorient whales, putting them in danger. 🐋 When certain algae flourish in the sea, they produce neurotoxins that can sicken humans and marine animals. Acute exposure to these toxins is even known to kill whales. news.mongabay.com/2025/02/stud...

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Only 50 Rice’s Whales 🐳 Are Left. Can we protect them before it’s too late? Their home is a minefield of speeding ships, seismic blasts from oil & gas prospecting & oil spills. The Deepwater Horizon disaster may have killed a fifth of all Rice’s whales. www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...

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In January, the French 🇫🇷 government enforced a month-long commercial fishing ban on vessels 8+ meters until Feb 20th to reduce dolphin 🐬 bycatch in the Bay of Biscay. Last year, the ban decreased dolphin bycatch from average of 6,100 pre-ban to 1,450‼️ www.thecooldown.com/outdoors/dol...

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Blue Whales 🐋 and some other baleen whale species call at such deep frequencies that they're undetectable by orcas, which cannot hear below 100 hertz. Scientists grouped whale species into “fight” or “flight” sections depending on their response to orcas. www.iflscience.com/blue-whales-...

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Scientists are perplexed by a strange new behaviour shown by the Amazon river dolphin (Boto) of flipping belly-up to urinate with another male “actively” seeking the stream with his snout. www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

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An orca calf, potentially less than 24 hours old, 😍has been spotted in a rare sighting of a newborn killer whale in Western Australia. 🇦🇺 This tiny orca calf could be one of the youngest ever seen in Australian waters. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

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Nets & drumlines have long been used in South Africa to kill sharks, not stop them entering bathing areas, as many people think. These lethal measures are extremely controversial, but their presence in 3 MPAs makes a mockery of 'Marine Protected Areas'. www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

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European leaders face growing pressure to strengthen regulations & enforce the protection of MPAs by banning destructive fishing practices (e.g. bottom trawling) within their waters. Despite the case against it, bottom trawling continues across the ocean 🌊 oceanographicmagazine.com/news/europe-...

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Study finds microplastic contamination in 99% of seafood samples‼️ The peer-reviewed study detected microplastics in 99%, or 180 out of 182, samples of seafood either bought at the store or obtained from a fishing boat in Oregon, USA. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Court restores protections for North Atlantic right whales. 🐳 👏 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed the decision of a lower court that had removed a law banning lobster fishing in a 200-mile area from Feb 1 to April 30 to protect right whales. www.independent.co.uk/news/donald-...

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Why humpback whales 🐋 are flocking to the UK? Sightings of humpback whales cruising the British coast are rising, causing debate amongst conservationists researching the cause. Article: www.telegraph.co.uk/environment/...

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A super pod of Risso’s dolphins 🐬, estimated at over 1,500 individuals, was spotted in Carmel Bay, off central California’s coast, 🇺🇸 by Monterey Bay Whale Watch. www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

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The humpback whale 🐋 trapped by ropes from a salmon farm off Skye has been freed by British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) 👏 who said the ropes were wrapped around the whale's head and left fin. The whale is exhausted and is being monitored. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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With over 1,000 deaths in January alone, the National Green Tribunal has threatened to impose a total ban on fishing during turtle nesting season if regulations continue to be flouted on the Chennai and Chengalpattu coasts in India. 🇮🇳 www.newindianexpress.com/states/tamil...

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‘Very rare’ sighting of juvenile Antarctic minke whale 🐋 off Sydney coast 🇦🇺 Scientists unsure what prompted juvenile whale to leave icy southern waters for warmer shallows, but ‘it may be a case of mis-navigation’. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Research has confirmed Orcas were responsible for bite wounds on a dead Great White Shark that washed up on a beach near Portland, Victoria 🇦🇺 It is the first orca predation on a great white shark in Australian waters to be confirmed using DNA testing. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...

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Fishing boats spotted competing with whales in Antarctica for krill. Most of Antarctica’s iconic wildlife, from penguins - whales, depend on krill. Krill are also sought after by humans, who are removing this vital food source for the marine environment. news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

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Thousands of common dolphins 🐬 are being killed by fishing vessels in EU waters. 🇪🇺 This barbaric practice is dismissively called 'bycatch' by the fishing industry. ✍️Sign our petition & join 555,000 people calling for an end to this needless slaughter www.change.org/p/stop-the-s...

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10 years ago up to 1,000 Great White Sharks were found in Gansbaai, South Africa but 2 orcas have had a major impact. Humans remain the biggest issue. Global shark numbers have halved since 1970. The fishing industry kills 100+ million sharks annually. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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What does it say about us that we contaminate an entire ecosystem of ocean life and the headlines read, “microplastics in seafood”? 🌎🦑🧪 www.realclearscience.com/2025/01/07/m...

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The UK has banned European vessels from catching sand eels in its North Sea waters to protect marine wildlife that depend on it for food. The EU is challenging the move via tribunal, arguing it breaches the post-Brexit trade deal. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Sad news from New Zealand's South Island 🇳🇿 where 3 pilot whales initially died after A pod of around 30 stranded in Golden Bay late on Saturday evening. Some of the pod were refloated, but stranded again at Tomatea Point with further fatalities. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

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Have you heard of the tope shark? They’re critically endangered, yet still have no legal protections in the US. Topes are so heavily targeted that fishermen call them “soupfins”. I found this aggregation of mother topes coming together to give birth on the California coast. #SaveTheTopeSharks 🌎🦑🧪

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Dolphins, otters, porpoises, fish & birds across the UK have“forever chemicals” in their tissue & organs @watershed-i.bsky.social obtained official data on more than 1,000 animals to reveal widespread PFAS contamination www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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🚨U.S. Government agrees to ban seafood imports tied to bycatch of marine mammals from January 1, 2026. 650,000 marine mammals 🐬🐳🦭 are killed in fishing gear as “bycatch” annually making it the greatest threat to marine mammal populations globally. Read more: www.nrdc.org/press-releas...

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Whaling causes increased stress in whale populations. 🐋 Sadly whales are more stressed than ever due to human-driven issues such as climate change, pollution, decreasing prey availability and underwater noise pollution. www.biographic.com/how-whales-f...

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Two humpback whales 🐋 freed from entangled fishing gear in separate response events in Hawaii. These most recent responses bring the total number of humpback whale entanglement cases since mid-December to eight‼️ Article: kauainownews.com/2025/01/14/t...

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Bowhead whales may not be the only species that can live to 200 years old. 🐳 Researchers have found that the industrial hunting of great whales has masked the ability of these underwater giants to also live to great ages. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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The impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on one of earth’s rarest Whales. Nearly 15 years after the catastrophic spill, Rice’s whales teeter on the brink of extinction, and we can track some of their struggles back to that fateful day. environmentamerica.org/center/artic...

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🚨grindadráp today, Hvannasund, Faroe Islands. 30-40 Pilot whales sighted at Árnafjarðarvík yesterday. Faroese boats stayed with them overnight to prevent their escape. Awaiting final count from today’s slaughter ✍️ Sign: www.change.org/p/stop-the-h... 📸 Kasper Solberg, previous grind, Tórshavn

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Deep sea mining ⛏️ is the new industrial frontier with devastating implications for the marine environment. ✍️Sign our petition and join the 51,000 people calling on the International Seabed Authority to end deep sea mining. www.change.org/p/internatio... #stopdeepseamining

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Studies suggest, once and for all, that fish do feel pain. 🎣 What is clear is that the higher cortical regions found in humans and mammals aren’t needed for pain in other animals. So we do why do so many people still believe that fish 🐟 don’t feel pain? blueplanetsociety.org/new-studies-...

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The truth about marine noise pollution. 🔊 Many marine animals create and receive sound for various functions, including communication, mate selection, and warnings of danger. Other sounds are used to avoid predators, detect prey, and navigate. Article: blueplanetsociety.org/the-truth-ab...

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Great white shark poaching continues with impunity in California, despite the state legislature explicitly banning this activity. Recreational fishing pages proudly post photos of illegal landings, yet CA Fish & Game refuses to enforce the law. 🦑 🌎 wildlife.ca.gov/Conservation...

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Whaling lies. 🐋❌ Whale meat accounts for 0.1% of the meat consumed in Japan 🇯🇵. 🧑‍🍳It's not a food tradition. 📉Whaling is not a significant contributor to Japan’s economy. ✖️Only 300 people out of 125 million are directly connected to the industry. blueplanetsociety.org/whales-are-v...

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Supertrawlers are massive trawlers, up to 144m long, using huge nets up to 1km long to target pelagic fish. Capable of catching thousands of tonnes of fish per trip, with disgusting levels of #bycatch, these marine ecosystem destroyers must be stopped. blueplanetsociety.org/the-devastat...

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The commercial fishing industry kills at least 38 MILLION tonnes of wildlife each year 'by accident' & has done for decades❗️ #Bycatch goes unpunished & reflects a total disregard for marine life by governments, policymakers & law enforcement. Article: blueplanetsociety.org/bycatch-cris...

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