Subject: Re: Mysticeti and plastic debris (fwd)
Shalom all,
We had occasion last night to PM a young male Ziphius (4.2 m long) which
stranded alive and died within minutes of reaching the beach. It was very
emaciated (all vertebral tips showing) and its stomach contained a total of
4.5 Kg of plastic debris with few interspaced cephalopod beaks. It may be
common practice for weak and hungry animals to seek to fill their stomach
with easily accessible floating objects, although I am not sure what they
did it with prior to the plastic age (algea?).
Incidently, does anyone know at what age/length do the teeth erupt in a
male Ziphius? This one had no signs of teeth.
Kind Regards,
Dan
>
>I am afraid that is common practice for most sea faring ships, not just
>fishing boats. And why not? The seas are so wide, there's nobody to see
>(to) it, you'll never see it again. And delivery in a harbour is expensive.
>
>Kind regards,
>Jan Willem Broekema
>European Cetacean Society, web manager
>http://web.inter.nl.net/users/J.W.Broekema/ecs
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: European Cetacean Society (ECS) [mailto:">ECS-ALL@JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
>> Behalf Of Nick Tregenza
>> Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 7:55 PM
>> To: ">ECS-ALL@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>> Subject: Re: Mysticeti and plastic debris (fwd)
>>
>>
>> Observation on UK fishing boats indicates that the normal practice is to
>> throw all waste into the sea during the tidy-up before reaching home.
>> Appalling. What happens elsewhere in Europe?
>>
>> Nick Tregenza
>>
>
>
Dan Kerem, Ph.D.
President,
IMMRAC (Israeli Marine Mammal Research and Assistance Center)
The Recanati Institute for Maritime Studies
The University of Haifa
Mount Carmel, Haifa 31905
Israel
e-mail: ">dankerem@research.haifa.ac.il
Tel: + 972-4-8249449 Fax: + 972-4-8240493
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