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Are you looking for something to do next summer? This is your chance to apply for a voluntary position working within the Cardigan Bay Monitoring Project. Based in New Quay, on the beautiful Ceredigion coast (West Wales) this project monitors the resident population of bottlenose dolp

Surveys this weekend took place off Anglesey, and the team of Sea Watch staff and Bangor University students on board the Prince Madog were treated to some great dolphin sightings! On Saturday a pod of 50 bottlenose dolphins were spotted off Moelfre, Anglesey. The team managed to get

Calm seas this week have allowed us the opportunity to escape from the office and head out to sea to continue monitoring the marine wildlife of the Cardigan Bay Special Areas of Conservation (SACs). On Saturday we set off from Aberystwyth on board the Machipe and within half an hour w

The team of volunteers here at Sea Watch Foundation in New Quay were treated to an unusual sighting of harbour porpoise from the harbour wall during their training last week. Three dorsal fins were spotted around 200 metres from the harbour wall during one of last weeks land watches,

After two weeks of being office bound due to bad weather, the Sea Watch team managed to squeeze in a survey this weekend! On Saturday we took off from Aberystwyth on board the Machipe to carry out a line transect survey in the Pen Llyn a’r Sarnau Special Area of Conservation (SA

Here at Sea Watch we took advantage of the good weekend weather by taking a trip out on our RIB, ‘Gallois’, in order to collect data for our Photo I.D catalogue. The sea was flat and calm, and the sun was shining, giving us high hopes that we would spot some dolphins! With

Line-Transect Survey, Dunbar Castle II Despite the bad weather which has prevailed for the last 2 weeks, we managed to squeeze in a line-transect survey on Thursday 5th July. For our new volunteers, this was the first time they had been on a marine mammal survey and their first up clo