Andy Adcock
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Dolphin numbers up in Scotland (1 Viewer)
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Nutcracker
Stop Brexit!
Actually - lots of Common Dolphins off Scotland isn't good news: it's a clear sign of how severe global warming is becoming. Common Dolphin is a warm-water species and in UK waters, used to occur frequently only off SW England, whereas Scotland mainly had cold-water adapted White-beaked Dolphins. The absence of any mention of them in the article is very worrying, too.
Farnboro John
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Common Dolphins have been a summer fixture in the Minches etc for really quite a long time (long as I can remember, anyway) and of course the Gulf Stream curls right round the top of Scotland. That's why White-beaks and White-sided Dolphins remain difficult to see up there - they are further out where the water is colder. The greater numbers are interesting and may reflect recovering fish stocks, but don't tell the fishermen or they'll want bigger quotas.
John
They will want bigger quotas after Brexit anyway...
Andy Adcock
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Well that shouldn't be a problem if we keep the Spanish, French trawlers out ouf our territorial waters should it?
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Andy Adcock
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So we have another bargaining chip....Cod wars 2 looms, not that there's much cod left:-C
If they try and shut us out, we reciprocate by banning them from our territorial waters.
One shocking stat is that a single Dutch trawler is allowed to register as a UK vessel and accounts on it's own for 23% of the entire UK quota, something stinks and it's not the fish.
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