THREE young sailors were being called heroes yesterday for saving the life of a baby dolphin.
Sarah Lawrence, Brent Pearson and Brendan Effeney went to help the dolphin that was caught on a shark buoy not far off shore.
It was spotted off Keppel Bay Sailing Club in Yeppoon around 1pm yesterday.
The trio didn’t know what to [...]

Risso’s dolphins have been spotted off the Cornish coast, according to a marine conservation charity.
A pod of between 15 and 25 dolphins was seen on three consecutive days off Penlee Point and Mounts Bay.
The Sea Watch Foundation said Risso’s were occasional visitors to South West waters, but rarely so early in the year, or in [...]

By Rosemarie Bernardo
POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, May 27, 2009
A pygmy killer whale that was euthanized during the weekend was dying from pneumonia, according to a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration biologist.
A CAT scan showed the killer whale had lost use of its left lung and part of its right lung because they [...]

DEWEY BEACH — The 50,000 pound whale that washed ashore in the Delaware Seashore State Park could have died after it collided with a large vessel, official said.
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“It had a fractured skull and a fractured jaw,” said Suzanne Thurman, director of the Marine Education, Research & Rehabilitation Institute Inc., the agency that performed the necropsy. [...]

NECROPSY UPDATE OF THE FOUR NORTHERN RIGHT WHALE DOLPHINS STRANDED OFF THE CALIFORNIA COAST
Santa Barbara, CA (May 24, 2009)— The four Northern Right Whale Dolphins that recently stranded on Santa Rosa Island were necropsied at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History on Saturday, May 23, 2009. As a member of the Marine Mammal Stranding [...]

REYKJAVIK (AFP) — Iceland’s whaling season began on Tuesday in defiance of protests from animal rights group that have called for an end to the practice and after international calls for it to reduce whaling quotas.
Iceland, one of two countries worldwide that still authorises commercial whaling, has set a maximum quota of 100 minke whales [...]

WDF Note: The bowhead whale population was greatly depleted by whaling, and was noted as an Endangered Species under the ESA in 1970.
Point Lay lands first whale in 70 years
Associated Press - May 7, 2009 8:14 PM ET
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Two crews from Point Lay have landed the community’s first bowhead whale in 70 [...]

From The Sunday Times
May 10, 2009
Killer whales face cull after finding taste for rare ottersJonathan Leake, Environment Editor
FOR conservationists it is the ultimate dilemma. Marine biologists are discussing a cull of killer whales because the predators are destroying other endangered sea mammals.
They are concerned by new research linking a huge population slump in species such [...]

Nature & Conservation
Jake Richardson
May 11th, 2009
Scientists found unusually high levels of flame retardant in dolphin blubber.
The closer the dolphins lived to downtown Miami, the more of the chemical was concentrated in them. The flame retardant can cause sterility in dolphins. Brominated flame retardants are applied to furniture, clothes and electronics to prevent them from burning. [...]

US (ChattahBox) – A press release by the National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has said that for the first time since 1965, blue whales are beginning to migrate back to areas once famous for whaling.
Commercial whaling was outlawed in 1965, after over 50 years of killing the giant mammals reduced their numbers significantly. It [...]