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Dolphins in the Atlantic prefer to eat high-energy fish
Source: BBC Earth By: Matt Walker
Common dolphins prefer to eat high-energy fish, say scientists. Researchers studying dolphins in the Atlantic Ocean have found that, contrary to expectation, dolphins are not opportunistic feeders that take whatever prey is available. Instead, they carefully select which fish to consume, preferring to eat energy-rich lantern fish while ignoring other lower quality fish species.
Cold-blooded ocean predators such as sharks make no such distinction. Details of the discovery are published in the Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology.
Marine mammals have evolved a diverse range of feeding strategies. Some orcas (killer whales) specialise in eating seals rich in fatty blubber, while the more sedentary dugong is herbivorous, surviving on a low-energy diet of seagrass...
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Controversial Whaling Proposal Fails at Global Meeting
Source: PRN Newswire
AGADIR, Morocco - It was announced on June 23 that a controversial proposal to legalize whaling has failed at the annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in Agadir, Morocco.
"Under a cloud of corruption allegations the IWC is taking a safe course, opting for a cooling off period that protects the moratorium and other IWC conservation measures." said Patrick Ramage, Director of IFAW's Global Whale Campaign. "Had it been done here, this deal would have lived in infamy."
The proposal, three years in the making, proposed a compromise between whaling and non-whaling nations which regularly clash at annual IWC meetings. Among the most hotly debated components of the proposal was a plan to overturn the worldwide ban on whaling, in place since 1986, by allowing legalized hunting of whales by Iceland, Norway, and Japan, the last three countries still hunting whales commercially. Japan, Norway, and Iceland have illegally killed nearly 35,000 whales since the inception of the moratorium...
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Massive oil-skimming ship makes stop in Norfolk
Source: Virginian-Pilot By: Scott Harper
Ten stories tall and nearly four football fields long, the world's largest oil skimmer dropped anchor Friday in Norfolk, on its way to the Gulf of Mexico and a possible bout with the biggest oil spill in U.S. history.
Before the floating behemoth can wage war, though, its billionaire owner has a few hurdles to jump, including one key question: Will it even work? Nobu Su, the CEO and founder of TMT Group, a Taiwanese shipping company, described the engineering behind his latest creation as "totally not common sense and totally against the rules." As designed, the giant skimmer would roll across the Gulf "like a lawn mower cutting the grass." Su said, ingesting millions of gallons of oily water through the small slits.
"A Whale" could handle 500,000 barrels of oily water a day, or slightly less than what all the skimmers now in the Gulf have gathered in more than 60 days on the job, Su said. Because the vessel is Taiwanese and was built in South Korea, it needs an exemption from the Jones Act, a federal law requiring commercial ships doing business in U.S. coastal waters to be American-flagged. Then there are environmental concerns. Because the ship would discharge water back into the Gulf, albeit after much of the oil had been skimmed away, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency must go along with the deal...
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