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Rare sighting of blue whale in seas off southwest coast - Sep 17, 2008 Irish Times,...“At 2.30pm we were watching a fin whale mother and calf blowing dead ahead when, all of a sudden, this incredibly large creature surfaced 15-20 yards off 55-foot fin whale washes ashore at Island Beach State Park - Aug 30, 2008 The Star-Ledger - NJ.com,...by Alexi Friedman/The Star-Ledger A 55-foot fin whale washed ashore today at Island Beach State Park in Ocean County. The whale, which had been dead for Giant whale washed up on Cresswell beach - Sep 18, 2008 Journal Live,She said: “We believe it is either a minke or fin whale, although we are leaning towards a minke. “It is quite badly decomposed, so it is hard to tell. The Majesty of the Whale - Sep 23, 2008 BlueFlipper Diving,One encounter with a particular fin whale sticks in my mind. Loon - so named because of a patch on its back that resembled the diving seabird - decided to Whale sounds recorded off Jones Beach - Sep 16, 2008 Newsday,The fin whale's song is so low, recordings must be speeded up to be heard by the human ear, Clark said. Audible from New York to Bermuda, the rhythmic, Animal bones offer clues to evolution - Sep 6, 2008 Boston Globe,Gwil Jones (left) shows a fin whale skeleton to students Andre Robinson, Sydney Sollazzo, Jake Smith, and Rachel Burke. (Matthew J. Lee/Globe Staff) By Quebec is magnifique in fall - Sep 9, 2008 Los Angeles Times,..."The fin whale," Martine explains, first in French and then in English, "can dive for 20 to 30 minutes." Some listen, some stare at the water hoping for Sam Branson's Arctic diary - Sep 2, 2008 Mirror.co.uk,The fin whale can reach a length of up to 25 meters and can weigh an enormous 90 tonnes. A regular summer visitor to the Arctic, the fin whale is similar in Reporters on the Job - Sep 4, 2008 Christian Science Monitor,But on a neighboring island, Grand Manan, Colin has seen whales that didn't make it: the near-skeletal remains of a fin whale and a right whale that were 85 tonnes of whale meat to be dumped? - Sep 3, 2008 Wildlife Extra,The whale meat - consisting of between 60 and 80 tonnes of fin whale meat from Iceland, and about 5 tonnes of minke whale meat from Norway - has now been Beachgoers surprised by large piece of washed-up whale blubber - Sep 2, 2008 Asbury Park Press,...said the blubber was most likely some of the remains of a 55-foot fin whale that washed up Saturday morning on the beach of Island Beach State Park. The Waters of the Gulf of Mannar - Sep 1, 2008 The Island (subscription),Marine Mammals such as Dugong, Sperm Whale, Blue Whale, Fin Whale, Sei Whale, Bryde's Whale ,Short-finned Pilot Whale , Indo-Pacific Humpback Dolphin, ‘Dolphins and Whales 3D: Tribes of the Ocean’ opens today at Union ... - Sep 4, 2008 Kansas City Star,And in what must surely be the most amazing image of all, the fin whale gulps an entire school of fish, body bulging like a pelican’s bill. Whales threatened with extinction - Aug 12, 2008 Radio Australia,The data shows nine species are now endangered including the world's biggest whale, the blue whale and the fin whale. But the research also shows the number Go with the floe - Jul 18, 2008 guardian.co.uk,There are big buckets of whale meat here - the guys got a fin whale the day before I came, you get a lot of meat on a fin whale, so there's tons of the Whale of a time - Aug 6, 2008 Pilot,Perry Young, skipper of the MV Daybreak 93, a tour boat operating out of Twillingate North, was still amazed a couple of days afterwards at what had Beach lifeguards help shark count - Aug 12, 2008 BBC News,Six species of cetacean were also recorded last year, including a fin whale. The basking shark is a regular visitor to the Cornish coast but little is Emergence of Rare Fish Here Linked to Global Warming - Aug 1, 2008 코리아타임즈,By Kim Rahn Giant blue-fin tuna and other semitropical fish are increasingly being caught in South Korean waters, a phenomenon linked to global warming. Whale of a job - Aug 5, 2008 Victoria News,...suspending the 26-metre long skeleton seems daunting, deRoos has pieced together many animals including Finny, the 18-metre fin whale in Telegraph Cove. Top Ten Bizarre Environmental Protests - Jul 23, 2008 Discover Magazine,In 2006, Greenpeace protesters moved a fin whale that had died in the Baltic Sea to the front of the Japanese embassy in Berlin, protesting Japan’s policy Mystery corpse 'could be walrus' - Aug 4, 2008 South Devon Herald Express,Mr Wallace said porpoises 'have been known' to wash up on Torbay's beaches and in October 2004 a 40ft fin whale' body washed up at a Brixham beach, Fundraiser held aboard Keen Lady IV to benefit MERR Institute - Jul 17, 2008 Cape Gazette,This includes a three-day response that occurred two years ago when a dead 55-foot, 70000-pound fin whale washed ashore on Middlesex Beach. Giant skeleton's reconstruction a whale of a job - Aug 1, 2008 Times Colonist,..."The big challenge is moving the pieces around, they're so big," said deRoos, who previously constructed a 20-metre fin whale. "Once that happens, we try Season Closes, and Japan's Whalers Fume - Apr 9, 2008 BusinessWeekThere's the blue whale, the fin whale, the humpback whale, the minke whale, 'the whale' is not threatened to extinction." Tensions between the world's pro- Visit Quebec for close encounters with whales - Apr 13, 2008 Asbury Park Press,Lamarche shouted as he pointed toward a fin whale. ("There she blows!"sounds much less corny in French.) "About 100 fin whales feed here every year," he Japan blames anti-whaling groups for low catch - Apr 14, 2008 TV3 News,...blaming their dismal catch on sabotage, Greenpeace spokeswoman Bunny McDiarmid says research should've shown them that fin whale populations were down. Great whales can be seen off Delaware’s coastline - Apr 1, 2008 The News Journal,However, there were some mistakes The fin whale is the second largest whale, weighing 50 to 70 tons. The humpback whale weighs a mere 25 to 40 tons. Namibia: Dead Whale Washes Up At Jakkalsputz - Apr 22, 2008 AllAfrica.com,A six-metre-long fin whale washed ashore at the Jakkalsputz campsite near Henties Bay over the weekend. The animal was dead, with a thick rope tied around “Twack� around NFLD - Apr 2, 2008 Canoe.ca,Using Fishers' Loft Inn as a base, you can hike the staggeringly beautiful Skerwink Trail, catching glimpses of seabirds while overlooking a fin whale Boat show opens Friday - Mar 27, 2008 Times and Transcript,Along with their Shark Man stage presentations, Oceans Wild will bring along a life-size inflatable model of a fin whale that kids can walk through to learn Baby fin whale found dead on the Lizard peninsula in Cornwall - Feb 19, 2008 Mirror.co.uk,Marine conservation groups fear the 20ft animal discovered on the Lizard peninsula in Cornwall may be one seen alive recently near Falmouth. WHALE FOUND DEAD - Feb 19, 2008 The Cornishman,A NEW-born fin whale - a rare species which is the second largest animal on earth - has been found dead on the Lizard. The 6.2 metre long baby fin has been Disoriented and weak, young fin whale dies on Israeli coast - Feb 3, 2008 International Herald Tribune,The calf was identified by veterinarians and volunteers as a fin whale, the second-largest mammal on earth. After struggling and thrashing for half an hour Whale bones turn up at Matagorda Island - Feb 20, 2008 Houston Chronicle,Fin whale — One documented stranding off Bolivar Peninsula in 1951. • Humpback whale — One report of a young humpback sighted near the North Jetty at Researchers nab rarely tagged fin whale in Uganik - Feb 4, 2008 Kodiak Daily Mirror,However, until recently, no fin whale had ever been tagged in Alaska. Since Thanksgiving, Kodiak-based UAF researcher Bree Witteveen has made two trips to The sea like you've never seen - Feb 17, 2008 Cape Cod Times,Whalewatchers might only experience the fin whale as a sleek gray back and small fin hurrying away from the boat. But the greyhound of the sea is much more, Call for whale strandings research - Jan 27, 2008 The Press AssociationIn the previous four and a half years no fin whale strandings were reported and the IWDG has recorded only 29 since 1990. Mick O'Connell, IWDG stranding Whale watching indoors in Nha Trang - Feb 20, 2008 Saigon Times Daily,An image of the skeleton of the largest Fin Whale is also on display. It measures two meters in length and was discovered in 1850 and is currently preserved An undersea adventure - Feb 16, 2008 MetroWest Daily News,Viewers can also watch a fin whale consume a massive "ball" of fish. Easy pickings since it can swallow up to 18000 gallons of water in one gulp and eat up Senators Boxer and Snowe Pleased Japan is Scaling Back its Whale Hunt - Jan 23, 2008 All American Patriots (press release),...have called off their hunt of humpback whales, I remain concerned that they are still hunting over 1000 whales, including the endangered fin whale. Anti-whaling protest ship running out of fuel - Jan 26, 2008 ReutersGreenpeace said it estimated the whalers needed to catch approximately nine minke whales each day and an endangered fin whale every other day in order to Fins & Flippers - Feb 1, 2008 Wiscasset Newspaper,The presentation will be held at the Center for Environmental Education, under our magnificent 55-foot Northern Fin Whale skeleton suspended from the Anti-whaling group ends pursuit - Jan 29, 2008 Guardian Unlimited,It estimated that the whalers needed to catch about nine minke whales a day, and an endangered fin whale every other day, to meet its quota of 835 minkes Whale battle turns to Japan - Feb 3, 2008 The Mercury,Greenpeace said it was estimated that the whalers needed to catch about nine minke whales each day and an endangered fin whale every second day to reach a Whale Slaughter Continues as Sea Shepherd Prepares to Return - Jan 31, 2008 Bay Area Indymedia,Endangered species such as the Fin whale continue to be slaughtered, despite their listing under CITES, which Japan is a signatory to. Over 100 whales saved, says Greenpeace - Jan 28, 2008 Fish Update,It is estimated that the fleet needed to catch approximately nine minke whales each day and an endangered fin whale every other day in order to reach their Whalers Outlast Protesters, Greenpeace Must Return to Port for Fuel - Jan 27, 2008 Environmental Graffiti,They would have had to catch 9 minke whales a day and 1 fin whale every other day to reach their goal, but have been unable to hunt while the Greenpeace Fresh tribal violence hits fragile peace deal - Feb 3, 2008 Times Online,...(AP) JERUSALEM A 13m fin whale died when it became lost in an Israeli port near Ashkelon. Marine biologists who found the ten-month-old female calf think Where does the ice for Winterlude's ice sculptures come from ... - Feb 3, 2008 Canada.com,...and also the amount of water a fin whale draws in a single gulp -- to Dubai and then spent two weeks building an ice lounge, called Chill Out, Some whales skipping seasonal migration, wintering off Kodiak Island - Jan 23, 2008 Alaska Public Radio Network,And for the first time, University of Alaska marine mammal biologists successfully tagged a fin whale in Uganik Bay. Share your comment or question. Fin whales can swallow ‘ocean soup’ enough to fill a school bus - 01 Dec 2007 TopNews,Washington, December 1: Scientists have discovered that while lunging towards krill and fish with an open mouth, a single fin whale can engulf up to 2900 Fin Whales Swallow a Bus-Full - Nov 30, 2007 Discovery ChannelAccording to new calculations, when lunging toward schools of krill and fish with an open mouth, a single fin whale can engulf up to 2900 cubic feet of the RESEARCH AND IDEAS: Weighing Whales’ Watery Meals - Nov 30, 2007 Daily Californian,The model, published in this month’s “Marine Ecology Progress Series,� looks at how much energy is needed for a fin whale to move after it takes in the Fin whales' big gulp - Nov 27, 2007 UC Berkeley,This sequence illustrates the six-second feeding lunge of a fin whale, which can carry the whale some 35 feet and collect as much as 25 pounds of Humpback and Fin Whale Spotted in Artic - Nov 7, 2007 6abc.com,ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - November 7, 2007 - Endangered humpback and fin whales swam hundreds of miles north of their usual habitat this summer in what WHALE OF A PUZZLE FOR THE QUEEN - Nov 2, 2007 This is Scunthorpe,The mammal - believed to be a fin whale - was first spotted near the Alexander Docks in Hull, but its body beached at Barrow Haven yesterday. Japan whalers off to hunt humpbacks: expedition chief - Nov 18, 2007 AFPWestern conservationists say that humpback and fin whale populations are still vulnerable. Australia has warned that killing humpbacks would seriously Discovery set to refute Japanese whaling claims - Nov 13, 2007 ABC Online,We need information on other whale species such as humpback whale and fin whale," he said. Mick mcintyre from the International Fund for Animal Welfare says Whale of a TV - Nov 22, 2007 Salt Lake Tribune,My wife and I decided this year to purchase a high-definition television for Christmas. In the news on Nov. 19 we learned Japan is sending four whaling US urges Japan to call off whale hunt - Nov 19, 2007 Jerusalem Post,By AP The United States urged Japan on Monday not to continue with a whale hunt in the Antarctic. Assuming the hunt is, as Japan contends, for scientific EU urges Japan to stop whale hunt - Nov 20, 2007 ReutersBRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission urged Japan on Tuesday to stop a hunt it said could kill up to 1000 mink, fin and humpback whales. Market demand to influence Icelandic decision on commercial whaling - Nov 19, 2007 Earthtimes,The fin whale is the second largest of the seven great whales. They are up to 24 metres long, and can weigh between 45 and 64 tons. O vegan attack vessel - Nov 22, 2007 Sacramento News & Review,Critics claim that the meat resulting from this research shows up in Tokyo’s Tsukiji Fish Market, where one fin whale can rake in $1 million before being EU Joins Others in Criticizing Japanese Whaling Expedition - Nov 20, 2007 Voice of AmericaThe EU also expressed particular concern that the hunt will include the threatened humpback whale and the endangered fin whale. EU concerned over Japanese whale hunting plans - Nov 20, 2007 dtt-net,Dtt-net.com - The European Commission is deeply concerned by Japan's plans to kill up to 1000 minke, fin and humpback whales in a South Pacific whale hunt European Commission Concerned Over Japanese Whale Hunting Plans - Nov 20, 2007 PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung),...- The European Commission has expressed its deep concern at Japan's plans to kill up to 1000 minke, fin and humpback whales in a South Pacific whale hunt European Commission Concerned Over Japanese Whale Hunting Plans - Nov 20, 2007 Times Record News,AP WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 20, 2007--The European Commission has expressed its deep concern at Japan's plans to kill up to 1000 minke, Japanese Fleet to Hunt Humpback Whales for First Time in Decades - Nov 16, 2007 CanadianBusiness.com,Japan's whaling fleet will leave port shortly for the South Pacific with orders to kill up to 50 humpbacks — the first known large-scale hunt for the whales It's outside the square - Nov 2, 2007 The Australian,Oh sure, you've got the top of the range S80 with seats made from the bosom of a fin whale and an electric drinks dispenser. But it's still a Volvo. Greenpeace to Monitor Endangered Whales - Oct 10, 2007 The Associated PressThis is the first time Japan has included humpback and fin whale species in its annual whale hunt, under an International Whaling Commission-allowed A whale of a reconstruction project - Oct 8, 2007 Globe and Mail,The centre, a non-profit endeavour led by local whale-watching guide Jim Borrowman, planned to install an 18 metre fin-whale skeleton in front of the [an error occurred while processing this directive] archives | news | XML / RSS feed | featured
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