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10th March 2021 VIRTUAL VOYAGER: An 'online' view taken from RV Celtic Voyager's wheelhouse with below marine biology students ashore! taking in the 'live-streaming' from tutors while in Dublin Bay. Credit: Marine Institute-retweeted RV Celtic Voyager of the Marine Institute, Ireland's national agency for marine research, development and innovation, has been working in south Dublin Bay this week, writes Jehan Ashmore. The 31.4m ship to be replaced next year by a Spanish newbuild, to be named the RV Tom Crean (52.8m), has since the start of this week carried out ship-based training albeit ...

Updated / Thursday, 29 Oct 2020 15:00 'The dolphins we thought were 'missing, presumed dead' were actually 'missing, moved'' Good news: Fungie may well have moved from Dingle up the coast to Tralee. This possibility has been raised by Dr Simon Berrow from the Marine and Freshwater Research Centre at the Galway Mayo Institute of Technology. Berrow spoke to Bryan Dobson on RTÉ Radio 1's News At One about how dolphins who were thought to have died, like the most famous one in Ireland, were later discovered alive. "We started studying the Shannon dolphins in May 1993", explained Berrow. "W...

The marine renewable energy industry in Ireland is set for explosive growth in the coming years with a production target of 5GW of offshore wind energy by 2030 and an ambition of 30GW by 2050. The Irish Whale and Dolphin Group (IWDG) supports the decarbonizing of the Irish economy, but offshore developments should be carried out within the framework of both national and international best practice and should have only minimal and not significant impacts on whales, dolphins and porpoises and their habitats. An IWDG Policy Document on Offshore Windfarms was launched today at the group’s ann...

High Numbers of Sperm Whales Counted off Irish West Coast in New Study 10th December 2020 Sperm whale at surface Credit: Simon Berrow Up to 380 sperm whales are living in deep waters off the Irish coast, a newly published study has found.  This makes sperm whales “one of the most abundant great whale species” in these waters, expert Dr Simon Berrow says.  Sperm whales are known for their distinctive echolocation “clicks” which can be heard over many tens of kilometres, and this allows them to be counted. A survey team from Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT) and the Scottis...

Sperm whales photographed by the Irish Aer Corps An estimated population of 380 sperm whales has been discovered in waters deeper than 300m off Ireland’s western shores. Sperm whales are one of the most abundant great whale species in the deep waters of offshore Ireland, according to a new study by the Scotland-based Sea Mammal Research Unit Consulting (SMRU Consulting) and Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT). The study, published recently in the Journal of Cetacean Research and Management, Principal Investigator at the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology of the ObSERVE_Acoustic proj...