Tag: seals

• Monday, December 5th 2022 - 10:20 UTC

  Some 2,500 seals are found dead on the Caspian Sea

  

  Some 2,500 seals have been found dead on the Caspian Sea coast in the southern Russian province of Dagestan, officials said on Sunday. Carcasses were discovered at various locations in and around Makhachkala, the coastal capital of the republic.

• Friday, May 10th 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  Vital role of penguins and seals poo for Antarctica bio-diversity

  

  For more than half a century, biologists studying Antarctica focused their research on understanding how organisms cope with the continent's severe drought and the coldest conditions on the planet. One thing they didn't really factor in, however, was the role played by the nitrogen-rich droppings from colonies of cute penguins and seals - until now.

• Thursday, May 2nd 2019 - 19:03 UTC

  Loligo squid season in Falklands with over 51.000 tons while iIlex falls

  

  The first season of the two loligo (Falklands calamari) seasons of 2019 closed with total catches of 51,000 tonnes, a 10,000 increase on the first season of 2018 and less than 30,000 tonnes short of the total for both 2018 seasons, 78,913 tonnes.

• Tuesday, March 6th 2018 - 09:22 UTC

  Falklands' calamari fishery: vessels equipped with robust seal exclusion devices

  

  Falkland Islands Director of National Resources, John Barton, reported that after a slow start, fishery catches were beginning to pick up: trawlers had started operating and there were only a few jiggers still to collect their licenses.