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Largs Beach Clean
Another Largs beach clean organised for Clean Up Scotland 2019! 🧤🌊Event Date: Sunday 07/04/2021
Group: Firth of Clyde coastal rowers/local SNP group.
Location: Largs Ferry terminal.
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We know plastic is in our oceans, but how about our bodies? Brilliant post here by Plastic Pollution Coalition. Give it a read!
Plastic Pollution Coalition
What’s plastic doing to our bodies? This all-female team is investigating.
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Arran Coast
Today the 20th September is 9 years since the Lamlash Bay No Take Zone was established.
To celebrate here's a short video of what divers spotted in the last few weeks.
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A fantastic project set up by a friend of SSACN!
Scottish Coastal Clean-up Project
An ongoing project to rid our coastline of marine plastic pollution and bring about change in how we use and view plastics for the future.
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Public announcement.
SAMS are carrying out an experiment today and tomorrow in Ardmucknish Bay, where a red dye is being released to simulate a leaking oil pipeline and the reactionary process from PhD students who are training to work in that field.
The harmless dye will be slowly released into the centre of Ardmucknish Bay over a period of four hours on two consecutive days (Wednesday 6th and Thursday 7th September 2017). The purpose is a training exercise for a cohort of PhD students from NEXUSS CDT.
The students will use a combination of robotic platforms, sensors and ocean tidal models to find the source.
Due to underwater activities being carried out in the vicinity of the simulation by both divers and Autonomous Underwater Vehicle, we would ask, where possible that vessels in the area try and steer clear of the area being worked in. SAMS' own vessel 'Calanus' will be in the immediate vicinity and can give a clear indication of where the event is taking place.
The following local services have been informed of the event being carried out¬
Local Police
Oban Airport
Scottish Natural Heritage, Oban Marine Officer
SEPA
Argyll and Bute Council marine team
HM Coastguard in Oban
Dunstaffnage Marina
Should you need to contact SAMS during the Wednesday and Thursday of the field work, the local contact will be Anuschka Miller, Office 01631 559300.
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Article from the North Star about the Sea angling competition with ourselves, Living Seas and Scottish Shark Tagging Programme!
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SAY IT IS SO... possible great white sighting in the Balearic Islands.
Five-metre great white shark spotted off Majorca in first confirmed sighting in decades
telegraph.co.uk
A great white shark has been spotted in a marine park in Spain’s Balearic Islands, in the first confirmed sighting of the predator in Spanish waters for more than four decades.
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Raw L'lien 😶
Megan Lee Jose Kastanjetre Silje Strand Lundgren Jose wasn't lying!!!
James Clifton
Eleanor Lawrie
Sarah Finn wow! I’d be going in a shark cage to see this! X
Gordon Currie
Michelle - Majorca here we come !!
Alexander James �
Was very near there yesterday on a commercial boat-saw a swordfish but no sharks.
JAW dropping images of a Common Thresher Shark taken by Tom Brereton of MARINElife during a recent Naturetrek Wildlife Holidays 'Seabirds & Cetaceans of Lyme Bay' trip last week.
Quote from Naturetrek Wildlife Holidays;
'Guests on our 'Seabirds & Cetaceans of Lyme Bay' last week were treated to a once in a lifetime encounter with a Common Thresher Shark! The shark gave a stunning display, breaching several times right next to the boat. Threshers use their abnormally long tail to stun shoaling fish, making them easier to catch. Thanks to tour leader Tom Brereton for the photos'.
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James Dunn
Another day another fantastic recapture...
We had our first recapture from Jersey at the start of this week after almost 2 years at liberty! Details to follow!!!
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A second interesting recapture to kick off the start of the week...
A tope that was tagged in September off the coast of the Isle of Man was recaptured in The Netherlands at the end of May! We estimate this individual travelled south through the English Channel, making it a trip of around 800 miles!
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Interesting recapture has come in this week...
A tope tagged in Luce Bay has returned after 3,300 days at liberty... that's 9 years! The fish had grown 23 cm and put on 10.5 lbs!
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Paul Morris
BBC News
"When you look at it the first time you may think it is a crocodile, but it is certainly not..." ���
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Marine Conservation
