Today was my first day out on the water with M3. The whales were too far east and west but we went to Race Rocks and saw some pinnipeds, including Steller and California sea lions.

I am now located in Victoria on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. As the Marine Mammal Monitoring Biologist, I will be out on the water educating boaters about Whale-Watch Guidelines and conducting the Acoustic Monitoring Project.

I was interviewed yesterday, on camera for two hours, by Mountainside Films for their Luna Book.

Whale-watch guidelines

Anti-fouling paint

Bob Hunter will be deeply missed.

Low frequency sonar is used by the US and UK to detect new ultra quiet submarines. These sound bursts are very loud at over 200dB. The low amplitude waves of energy travel long distances and are still very loud and harmful to marine mammals and humans over a 1oo miles away.

MMFN stewardship updates

Lone Beluga in Pennsyvania - Helis was first sighted in the St. Lawrence Estuary and was back in 1986 and has been seen regularly until 1994. Since then he had only been spotted twice, in 2000 and 2003, until he turned up in the Delaware River

May 17, 2005 is General Voting Day for the 38th Provincial General Election

Marine Conservation Presentations: oil and MPAs

A young gray whale, 2 to 3 years old, was found beached in Boundary Bay today and later swam back to the ocean with the high-tide and help from volunteers. The whale had lesions and showed signs of starvation but blood work revealed no infections. Grays whales are migrating back north from the breeding lagoons of Baja, California.
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more on grays...

Luna with another killer whale!

Learn more about Canada's Seal Hunt

I attended the Marine Mammal Regulation conference in Vancouver on Monday. If you have any ideas or concerns for the government to consider before these regulations are enforced you have until the end of the month to make comments to:

MarineMammals@pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca

flickr is good food

Aquagreen.org gets a face lift :)

questions of science

Navy sonar tests may be responsible for over 70 deep-water rough-toothed, Steno bredanensis, dolphins beaching themslves in the Florida Keys. More than 20 dolphins have died, some have been led back to the ocean, and the rest have been moved to care units.

A newly discovered restricted small population of pink dolphins needs your help.