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Current Marine Events - Last
updated April 23rd, 2008 |
Diesel spill in the Michael Bigg Robson Bight Ecological Reserve (Happened:
August 20th,
2007):
April 18th, 2008 - Government announcement that the
fuel tanker is to be removed but - when?
Report
from OrcaLab. Includes sound sample they captured of equipment hitting
the ocean bottom. Latest
update (April 20th, 2008).
Video
of the underwater wreckage (Feb 12th) of equipment on ocean bottom.
- Updates by Living Oceans on the scan and spill
- "After the Spill -
Robson Bight". See the video by Twyla Roscovich of "Calling
from the Coast" re. the Bight 6 weeks after the spill
- Save Robson Bight webpage
- Images of the barge and
spill
- Background information on the Michael Bigg Ecological Reserve at Robson
Bight http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/bcparks/eco_reserve/robsonb_er.html
and http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/bcparks/eco_reserve/robsonb_er/robson_b_brochure.pdf
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Japan's whaling fleet underway planning to add 50 humpbacks to
the slaughter in an Antarctic Whale Sanctuary (November 2007) Update
Jan 2008 - Kill of 50 humpbacks called off but proceeding with the rest of the
"quota"
2007 / 2008 Whaling Quotas:
Japan: 725 Minke, 50 Bryde, 100 Sei,
3 Fin,10 Sperm. "To increase supplies of meat even further, the Japanese
government recently legalised the killing and sale of whales entangled in
fishing nets. Predictably, this led to a five-fold increase in 'accidental
by-catch' in just six months."
Norway: 1052 Minke whales
Iceland: 39 Minke whales (source: WDCS)
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- Sign International Fund for
Animal Welfare
Petition #1
- Petition
#2
- Whaling
fleet leaves from Japan (November 19th) - article putting forward both
"sides" of the whaling dispute.
- Further whaling facts
- ACTION:
Money talks: Boycott Japanese products!
Demand that your country take a stand against Japan's whaling. In
Canada, contact David Emerson, Minister of International Trade. His constituency
office number is 604-775-6263 and his email address is emersd@parl.gc.ca.
Write Japan's ambassador to Canada is Sadaaki Numata infocul@embjapan.ca
and/or Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda Kanteihp-info@cas.go.jp
- Further information on whaling - click here
and see point 1c.
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Half hour recording (October 11th, 2007) from OrcaLab
of humpbacks
singing in Blackfish Sound, BC. Big download but so worth it
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Makah tribe kill gray whale in act of unauthorized whaling September 8th,
2007
Statement
by Makah tribe
Article about the death of the gray whale
Indictment of the illegal
whalers (October 5th, 2007)
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Rescue of stranded
humpback calf - Haida Gwaii; August 23rd, 2007
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IWC 2007 meeting reports from Dr. Paul
Spong of OrcaLab
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T86
severed dorsal fin found (May 24th, 2007)
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Humpbacks
up the Sacramento River - latest news (May 24th, 2007)
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Basking
Shark on recognized as being COSEWIC "Endangered" (May 1st,
2007). They used to be abundant off the coast of British Columbia but we
slaughtered them from 1955 to 1969 since they were getting caught in gill nets
(organized cull by the Department of Fisheries). The last sighting of one
is BC was off the coast of the Queen Charlotte Islands in 2005. More
information.
Deep Sea Expeditions - video and interactive pages. Current (May 2007) expedition is to go deep, deep, deep in Antarctica.
Rare deep-sea "frilled shark" found off Japan - video; January 24th, 2007 Further photos from National Geographic
Colossal squid caught off Antarctica - February 23rd, 2007 (includes video)
The back issues of the Wild Killer Whale Adoption Programmes publication "The Blackfish Sounder" are now (March 2007) available on-line! Great source for the latest killer whale research! Current issue.