On Saturday 7th July, the Hvalur hf. Whaling company, having taken 21 fin whales already this season in Iceland, landed a whale that several of us have identified as a blue whale, a species which has been globally protected since 1966. It was brought in to the whaling station at Hvalf
On July 3rd we got contacted by Gordon MacLean who with this skippers and crew (Chris and Jodie) had an incredible sighting with a very playful pod of Risso’s dolphins just North of the Shiant Isles in the Outer Hebrides. Gordon, Chris and Jodie work for Stornoway Seafari (https
Sea Watch Foundation has monitored whales, dolphins and porpoises in British and Irish waters for over forty years with the help of volunteer observers all around the country. For the past 16 years this has been spearheaded through an annual national recording event, the National Whal