05 Sep 2023
SEA-CHANGERS MARINE CONSERVATION GRANTS – apply now! Sea-Changers gives grants to UK-based charities and not-for-profit organisations (including schools) carrying out marine conservation related activities. We are currently accepting applications to our Main and Small grants funds. For both funding streams, the projects we fund should achieve one or more of the following objectives: To […]
05 Sep 2023
Orcas that have been ramming boats are not “attacking” the vessels, but are most likely being playful, leading scientists have said. The experts have warned that the false narrative is putting the animals at risk of retribution from humans. Iberian orcas started ramming vessels along the Spanish and Portuguese coast in July 2020, with at least 11 […]
05 Sep 2023
A new peer-reviewed journal article attempts to unravel the mystery of the first confirmed records of the smalltooth sand tiger shark in the UK and Ireland. In March 2023 a rare shark washed up on the shores of Co Wexford in what scientists believed was the first official record of the species in Irish waters. […]
05 Sep 2023
The Icelandic government has announced that commercial whaling can resume after the activity was suspended for more than two months. Commercial hunting of fin whales can resume but with stricter requirements on hunting methods and increased supervision, the government said. In June, Svandís Svavarsdóttir, the country’s minister of food, agriculture and fisheries, postponed this year’s planned whale […]
05 Sep 2023
A new review by marine experts has revealed the locations, primary sources of funding and beneficiaries of large-scale marine and coastal restoration efforts taking place around the world. The report, Endangered Seascapes: Progress, needs and opportunities for seascape restoration focuses on large, “seascape”-scale projects, recognising the importance of integrated approaches to the use and conservation of coastal […]
05 Sep 2023
2022 saw fish prices trend upward but profits decline in another challenging year for the UK fishing fleet Seafish, the public body that supports the UK seafood industry, has released financial estimates which offer an insight into the difficulties faced by the nation’s fishing industry last year. When comparing data with the two previous years, […]
05 Sep 2023
Fish that live on or near the seafloor -known as demersal or groundfish- barely feel the impact of marine heatwaves, according to new research that highlights the need to keep seas from warming further. In a new paper published in Nature, an international team of researchers assessed the impacts, on groundfish, of 248 sea-bottom marine heatwaves, defined as periods […]
05 Sep 2023
Offshore construction has officially started at RWE’s 1.4 gigawatt (GW) Sofia Offshore Wind Farm, to install essential subsea cable infrastructure from the UK’s north east coast to the wind farm site on Dogger Bank, in the central North Sea. Cable contractor Prysmian’s high-tech Leonardo da Vinci vessel will lay the first section of high voltage direct current […]
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