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Peter Corkeron@petercorkeron.bsky.social |
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Marine ecologist.
Currently unemployed
Got an adjunct position for which I'm very grateful
Been known to do stuff on dolphins and whales
My views are invariably mine
My site: aduncus.net
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Peter Corkeron
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Meanwhile, in the whale world...
North Atlantic #rightwhale and calf seen in Maine waters
How many times does a #rightwhale have to be seen or heard in Maine waters before it's accepted that they're there?
Well designed science-for-management would have addressed this question earlier.
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And in #rightwhale news...
Another entangled whale found. Juvenile female
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Kim the answer to what the US can do is - Pelly certification. See www.commondreams.org/opinion/japa...
Apologies for the delayed response, l but I figured this piece, now it's out, can explain things.
Carefully targeted sanctions on the owner of Hvalur could follow from certification.
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I've got a new piece out in Common Dreams Fin whales are where the real money is in whaling, and "There is nothing to stop Japanese whalers returning to much larger-scale commercial whaling. They are on the cusp of their comprehensive victory over the conservation movement." 🐳🌍🦑
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Have you talked to the Preeclampsia Foundation?
www.preeclampsia.org
They might have some information for you
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Peter Corkeron
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PS good question
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The quota is based on using the IWC algorithm for calculating catches My guess is it’s about getting a permit for several years not one The left greens are vulnerable Seems like a political play to get a better resolution for Hvalur for the next few years
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Having been awarded a whaling quota for this year, albeit very late, Kristján Loftsson, CEO of Hvalur hf., "has criticised the Left-Green Movement for deliberately making whaling difficult and calls the permit insufficient for operational needs." Intriguing. 🐳🌍🦑
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Yes, the Japanese eat whale meat, and the fin whale meat from Iceland will be exported there. Japan wouldn't be doing this unless there was agreement with the US government that they can do it. This is the important point that's being missed.
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Not a great day for #finwhales
Today, Iceland issued a license to kill ~128 fins this season
And Japan announced a quota of 59 fins -
www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20...
Whaling's back, and getting bigger.
It'll grow from here.
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More wow science: play matters for young male dolphins
www.science.org/content/arti...
Amazing work by the Shark Bay Dolphin Research crew. Shows yet again the value of their long-term research
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The paper - www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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Peter Corkeron
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Wow. African savanna elephants call each other by name
www.theguardian.com/science/arti...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Peter Corkeron
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And with the oil production caveat of course
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Humpback whales stranding dead off the US east coast in recent years - it's shipping, not offshore wind.
Good paper - conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Some happy news for #rightwhales
Another calf found.
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Back in Canada, an interesting development ...Thursday evening's announcement from DFO means that fishermen will not be fully kept out of the previously closed zones. 🐳🌍🦑
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Meanwhile, in Canada, on #rightwhales
"about 200 members of the Maritime Fishermen's Union decided not to remove their roughly 60,000 traps in the area."
Not exactly partnering in conservation.
Reminder that there ~350 North Atlantic right whales left, and their numbers are declining.
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A whale washed up dead. Greens blame a Democrat.
Great article on the politics of Maine lobstering and #rightwhale conservation (or lack thereof)
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Biodiversity Day!
And another dead #rightwhale found
Thanks for Oceana Canada for the report
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A new era begins for commercial #whaling
“This is a new ship for a new era, symbolic of the new period of resumed commercial whaling,” announced Hideki Tokoro, president of the whaling company that built the Kangei Maru.
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Another #rightwhale calf likely dead
www.fisheries.noaa.gov/national/end...
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"The North Atlantic right whale Road to Recovery describes our comprehensive efforts to address threats to the species and monitor recovery progress."
Seems the Road to Recovery needs some roadwork.
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Can tech save right whales? Interesting article. Gib Brogan from Oceana gives the correct answer - (spoiler alert) No. 🐳🌍🦑
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Hey Luke, there's now a marine mammals group on Bluesky as well. Have you joined it? 🐳
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And today, an entangled North Atlantic #rightwhale found.
Another female.
I wonder what it's going to take to move beyond talking about ropeless gear - that one day, eventually, it'll be available at a scale that'll make a difference.
Before or after these whales are extinct.
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Note the wording - "which are confirmed to have sufficient stocks based on survey methods accepted by the International Whaling Commission (IWC). The agency sets quotas for each species,..." Japan is no longer in the IWC, and so can self-allocate quotas. They're not accepted by anyone else. 🐳🌍🦑
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And so it starts First, killing fin whales in the Japanese waters. Get back into the habit of butchering them in waters where whalers are comfortable. And watch for how other governments respond. (Spoiler alert: just as they have since Japan left the IWC - pathetically) 🐳🌍🦑
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Thanks Rosaleen Not a surprise to us, but surely it'd be shocking to many. Unfortunately, it's impossible to get any media - especially those who did the puff pieces originally - to pay attention.
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@rosaleenduffy.bsky.social
Thought you might be interested in this follow-up piece.
There's even more to the story than there appeared initially.
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In case it's not clear: There are tens of thousands of fin whales in just one part of the Southern Ocean. Known from fieldwork conducted a few years ago. The Japanese whaling company has a new, ice-strengthened, long range factory ship. Built to handle fins Antarctic whaling will return 🐳🌍🦑
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And, from the release - "The fin whale abundance estimate for the Scotia Sea was presented last week at the meeting of the Scientific Committee of the International Whaling Commission in Bled, Slovenia."
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Time to plug this piece -
An interesting relationship between a conservation NGO and US military intelligence. Possible human rights abuses too.
@wyden.senate.gov given your role on the Senate Intelligence Committee is this of interest?
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"The 9,300-ton ship, equipped with a slipway that can haul 70-ton fin whales, can store up to 600 tons of meat at a time, enabling it to remain at sea for long periods."
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And on the same day, finally, the MSM notice the new Japanese #whaling mothership
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"Japan has “not given up” on the resumption of whale hunting in the Antarctic, according to Ren Yabuki, director of the environmental and animal protection group Life Investigation Agency.
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New research led by Norwegian gov't scientists shows that fin whales now* number ~50K in just one part of the Southern Ocean.
Link to the research paper too - www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Great recovery post-whaling.
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*well, about 5 years ago
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Another entangled #rightwhale found.
www.fisheries.noaa.gov/national/end...
"He was ... most recently seen gear-free in Cape Cod Bay in March 2024." Must be New England gear.
It's April and we're already at 3 years' worth of the "acceptable limit" of observed deaths and injuries from US gear
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Meanwhile, the #whaling saga in Iceland gets curiouser and curiouser...
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Peter Corkeron
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And so predictable that it was going to be vessel strike
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Peter Corkeron
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And in right whale news... Another whale found dead and reported. One of this year's calving females. Hoping the calf died quickly for its sake. 🐳🌍🦑
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Many scientists are happy to take the Faustian bargain...
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Also on #whaling -
Strange how despite all the NGOs interested in whale conservation, only the Blue Planet Society blueplanetsociety.org and
the Paul Watson Foundation www.paulwatsonfoundation.org
are reacting as though they understand the meaning of this...
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Peter Corkeron
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Meanwhile, on the #whaling front -
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Peter Corkeron
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And a new term - bright extinction - "the noticeable and documented precipitous decline of a data-rich population toward extinction" 🐳🌍🦑 NOAA Fisheries' gift to the planet - a great term for their capacity to throw lots of money at research while doing next to nothing to solve problems.
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Paper led by Rob Williams from Oceans Initiative - oceansinitiative.org
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Preventing extinction is still possible but will require greater sacrifices on regional ocean use, urban development, and land use practices, than would have been the case had threats been mitigated even a decade earlier.
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Peter Corkeron
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Congratulations I hear it’s a great course
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"The primary threat to the Maugean skate is habitat degradation resulting from sustained reduction of dissolved oxygen. ...the most important anthropogenic contributor to the oxygen debt in Macquarie Harbour is ongoing salmonid aquaculture" page 14 🧪🦑🌎