03 Mar 2026
Photo by Amy Asher Volunteers rescuing marine mammals entangled in discarded plastic waste along Yorkshire’s coast attended 41 call-outs in 2025, more than four times the nine recorded in 2019, the BBC reports, in a trend that rescue workers say reflects a worsening crisis of beach litter left behind by holidaymakers. Chris Cook, an area […]
10 Jan 2023
Entanglement is the biggest identified cause of death due to human activity for minke and humpback whales, and the extent of the issue has not been well understood. Whales and other marine animals can become entangled in fishing equipment, including the ropes linking creels (also known as pots), which are set around Scotland’s coasts to […]
20 Apr 2021
North Atlantic right whales gave birth over the winter in greater numbers than have seen since 2015, an encouraging sign for researchers who became alarmed three years ago when the critically endangered species produced no known offspring at all. It’s qualified good news though since right whales are still dying — largely from manmade causes — at […]
29 Jan 2018
Thanks to Sue Sayer for passing on the details of this report. World Animal Protection appointed fisheries consultants Poseidon Aquatic Resource Management Ltd to undertake a series of work packages to ‘define best practices and inform policies on the management of fishing gear abandoned, lost or otherwise discarded fishing gear (ALDFG). ALDFG has a significant […]