Hello, MARINE LIFE NEWS BULLETIN TORPEDO (October 2008) No. 145 The monthly news bulletin has been sent out to subscribers and should arrive in subscriber's...
Hello, This is a new Grouply service in conjunction with YahooGroups: http://www.grouply.com/ygroup.php/Glaucus/868 The group messages can be seen on this web...
Hello Davy, Thanks for the report. Has the ID been confirmed please? Also, can I have permission to include the image on the News web pages? Cheers Andy...
Hi all I received a report from Bill Carter of a seal sighting at Peacehaven (East Sussex). He first spotted the seal at 2pm as he was cycling along the...
Spotted a dead washed up dolphin today at 1400 hours. It is on the pebble beach between Cornborough Cliff and Abbotsham Cliff. Somewhere near the footpath...
I thought I remind you of our debate on Thursday week: Earthwatch Debate: Irreplaceable – the World's Most Invaluable Species Thursday 20th November,...
... Somewhere ... Yes - to the natural history museum http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/research/projects/strandings/ If the corpse is fresh and...
Thank you for advice. I have been in communication with Caroline Jones Record Centre Officer Devon Biodiversity Records Centre c/o Exeter Central Library ...
"Twenty ships were involved in an intensive military exercise off the Cornish coast just days before the mass stranding of dolphins this summer ...... " to...
Apologies for cross posting Dear All Unfortunately, financial difficulties at the National Marine Aquarium have lead to restructuring, and in the process, my...
Hi Dough As you know I have recently joined the group and had no chance of comunicating with you. I am sorry to hear about your redundancy and hope your...
Hello, MARINE LIFE NEWS BULLETIN TORPEDO (November 2008) ISSN 1464-8156 Issue no. 146 The monthly news bulletin has been sent out to subscribers and should...
I notice that 'Torpedo' is still advertising MERMAID (which stands for "Marine Environment Research, Mapping And Information Database" - an acronym that cost...
Hello, Thanks for the update. I check the links but once a year. Cheers Andy Horton. glaucus@... ... British Marine Life Study Society (formed 6 June...
Recieved this email today from a local fisherman: "Yesterday the trawler Janeen caught a very odd fish in the outer Thames estuary. After some deliberation...
Is global warming the cause of nature or are we causing it ?. The seas rise and fall due to nature, not our interferance. As Darwen said "Natural selection"...
Hi Ian Climate change has always happened - otherwise we would still be in "Snowball Earth" or the heat of the Permian deserts. BUT it is now happening many...
Hi Doug. Do you think that the expansion of mankind has, just a little to do with it ??????? If we did what Mao Tse Tung said in china quite a few years...
Thanks Leon, I have also had a report of two found dead on Aldbrough Beach East Yorkshire about a week ago. I am very interested in these and would appreciate...
Just a note to let members of this egroup know that the latest newsletter of the Penzance branch of the British Sub-Aqua Club is now available to download from...
Not a very happy note to end the year, a porpoise was reported washed ashore at Lancing in West Sussex (near Brooklands Park) on Monday evening 15th December....
Hi Steve. What kind of beach is it at Lancing ? I have noted that the majority of strandings are on sandy beaches, there are virtually none where I go out...
Hi Steve  If you send me pics of the dogfish and ray I will see if I can identify them. They could be discarded fisheries by-catch.  regards, Doug ...
Hello, Currently, the strandings at Shoreham are mostly Lesser Spotted Dogfish. 15 December 2008 A Harbour Porpoise, Phocoena phocoena, was washed up dead on...
Hi Douglas Unfortunately I do not have any pics as the report was second hand. The dogfish appear to be lesser spotted. I am trying to track down a picture of...
Hi Doug, More reported at: _http://www.leader-lines.com/amb/eagm/2531.shtml_ (http://www.leader-lines.com/amb/eagm/2531.shtml) Regards, Leon Roskilly [Non-text...
Hello, The British Marine Life Study Society is temporarily inactive. I hope to have it up and running again in a few days time. Cheers Andy Horton. ...
