A ship carrying 2 000 tonnes of fin whale meat skipped the Durban port after South Africans called on government to deny it entry, Greenpeace said. The cargo ship Alma was sailing from Iceland en ...

Researchers on board do regular plankton sampling on the voyage, catching it in bongo nets, two huge conical nets attached to rings, shaped something like windsocks on airfields. These are winched up, ...

Scientists are looking to better track whale sharks in New Zealand to determine how vulnerable they are to ship strikes after an international study found it may be the cause of their decline. The ...

One of SIMRES’ many projects is the Southern Gulf Islands Whale Sighting Network, for which about 100 residents of Saturna, Pender, Mayne and Galiano islands act as observers.

A massive global collaboration has tracked over 12,000 marine animals from whales to turtles to create one of the most detailed movement maps of ocean giants ever assembled. The project, MegaMove ...