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Marine Mammal & Marine Turtle Strandings www.strandings.com Marine Mammal & Marine Turtle Strandings (Welsh Coast) Annual Report 2001 R.S.Penrose. January 2002 Marine Environmental Monitoring Penwalk Llechryd Cardigan Ceredigion West Wales SA43 2PS e-mail: [email protected] REPORT DISTRIBUTION. Centre for Environment, Fisheries & Aquaculture Science. R. J. Law Countryside Council for Wales. Dr A. McMath R. Pratt Environment Agency. R. Miln Institute of Zoology. P. Jepson Local Authorities. Anglesey M. Mothersole Bridgend S. Moon Cardiff P. Gillard Carmarthenshire E. Waters Ceredigion B. Jones Conwy T. Mead Denbighshire M. Bud Flintshire R. Hebdon Gwynedd B. Davies Neath Port Talbot Y. Edwards Pembrokeshire B. Sharp Swansea D. Smith Vale of Glamorgan M. Humphries Maritime & Coastguard Agency. Swansea Milford Haven Holyhead Natural History Museum. R. Sabin Pembrokeshire Coast National Park. J. Hodges Snowdonia National Park Authority. R. Gritten University College Cork. Dr E. Rogan University of Liverpool. Dr J.R. Baker Welsh Assembly. Dr H. Prosser 1 CONTENTS Page 1 INTRODUCTION 4 2 MATERIALS AND METHODS 4 2.1 Live Animals. 5 2.2 Dead Animals. 5 3 RESULTS 6 3.1 Marine Mammals. 6 3.2 Unusual Occurrences. 7 3.3 Live Strandings 9 3.4 Bottlenose Dolphin Attacks. 10 4 OTHER MARINE ANIMALS REPORTED TO THE NETWORK 11 4.1 Turtles. 11 5 FOOT & MOUTH DISEASE 12 6 SAMPLES 13 7 FUNDING 15 8 PUBLICITY 15 9 EQUIPMENT 15 10 TRAVEL 15 11 ADMINISTRATION 15 12 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 15 13 APPENDICES 16 2 List of Tables. Table 1. 2001 Total number of reported Marine Mammal Strandings (Welsh Coast). 6 Table 2. 2001 Number of Live Cetacean Strandings (Welsh Coast). 6 Table 3. 2001 Number of Animals suitable for post-mortem examination (Welsh Coast). 6 Table 4. 2001 Number of Animals decomposed / disposed of. (Welsh Coast). 7 List of Figures. Reported Harbour porpoise strandings from the Figure 1. Welsh coast. 7 Figure 2. Porpoises killed by Bottlenose dolphins from the Welsh coast. 10 Figure 3. All 28 porpoises killed by Bottlenose dolphins from 1995-2001 are plotted on the Welsh coast. 11 3 1. INTRODUCTION In 1990, the Collaborative UK Marine Mammal Strandings Project was initiated and part- funded by the UK Department of the Environment (now DEFRA). The project involves detailed pathological and other investigations of stranded marine mammal carcasses (mostly cetacean) from UK waters. It forms part of the Department's international obligations towards conservation agreements, including the Agreement on the conservation of Small Cetaceans of the Baltic and North Seas (ASCOBANS). The UK DEFRA contract is held by the Natural History Museum (NHM), with research being co-ordinated in England and Wales by the Institute of Zoology (IOZ) and the Scottish Agricultural College (SAC) in Scotland. A number of other organisations are involved with the collaboration which include Marine Environmental Monitoring (MEM), the Centre for Environmental Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (CEFAS), the University College Cork and the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland. Post-mortem examinations of Welsh strandings are carried out by the Department of Veterinary Pathology, University of Liverpool and the Institute of Zoology, London. In addition to pathological and related investigations, a range of frozen and fixed material, collected post-mortem, are currently archived at the Institute of Zoology. As from 2001, marine turtles have been included within the project and dead carcasses have been routinely collected wherever possible for post-mortem examination. Records of live and dead marine mammal strandings together with sightings and strandings of live and dead marine turtles are kept by the Welsh Strandings Co-ordinator. Cetacean records are passed to Richard Sabin for correlation at the NHM. Since 1913, cetacean records have been, and continue to be kept, by the NHM, in co-operation with the Receiver of Wrecks and HM Coastguard. Funding towards this project in Wales has been provided by the Welsh Assembly through the Countryside Council for Wales (CCW) and DEFRA through the Institute of Zoology, London. Support of certain items of equipment has been provided by the Environment Agency. 2. MATERIALS AND METHODS A 24 hour Strandings Answerphone (01348 875000), is interrogated at regular intervals. A message requests callers to leave details of the stranding and location, along with their name and contact phone number, so they can be reached if confirmation of details are required. (If the stranding is a live stranding then a message on the Answerphone informs the caller to contact the RSPCA immediately. see 2.1) A network of volunteers, rangers, wardens, coastal officers, harbour masters etc. has been formed who can be contacted by the Strandings Co-ordinator to confirm the stranding, assess its condition and secure the animal from the effects of the tide, predation etc. until it can be dealt with. 4 The following criteria are applied: - 2.1 Live Animals (Condition code 1) 1 In 1994 the Marine Animal Rescue Coalition (MARC) was formed. This consists of all the major animal welfare and conservation bodies involved with marine mammals in the UK. It has been agreed that in the case of a live stranding the first point of call would be the RSPCA as they support a manned 24-hour emergency phone. The RSPCA would then contact the relevant organisations, Marine Environmental Monitoring etc. 2.2 Dead Animals (Condition code 2a extremely fresh as if just died) 1 (Condition code 2b slight decomposition) 1 The animal is retrieved using a 4-wheel drive vehicle and trailer. Health and safety precautions are followed with the animal only being handled with gloved hands. It is then taken immediately for post-mortem examination. (Condition code 3 moderate decomposition)1 The animal is retrieved using a 4-wheel drive vehicle and trailer. Health and safety precautions are followed with the animal only being handled with gloved hands. Preferably it is taken immediately for post-mortem examination. Storage at +40 Celsius is permissible for a maximum of 1 week. (Condition code 4 advanced decomposition)1 (Condition code 5 mummified carcass)1 Species identified, basic measurements and 6 teeth taken from the lower jaw if possible. Health and safety precautions being observed. Local council then contacted for safe disposal of remains. All live and dead stranded cetaceans are reported to the NHM and are allocated a “SW” number. All dead seals are reported to the IOZ and are allocated an “SS” number. Dead marine turtles are reported to MEM and allocated a “T” number. Records of all strandings in Wales are kept by the Strandings Co-ordinator and passed on to the NHM and IOZ on a regular basis. Copies of post-mortem examination reports are sent from the Strandings Co-ordinator to the finder and others associated with the relevant stranding. 1 Body condition based on the Institute of Zoology condition code. 5 3. RESULTS 3.1 Marine Mammals Table 1. 2001 Total number of reported marine mammal strandings (Welsh Coast). Species Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec TOTAL Bottlenose dolphin 000010101110 5 Common dolphin 220100220201 12 Common/Striped dolphin 000000100000 1 Risso's dolphin 000000001010 2 Striped dolphin 100000000000 1 Harbour porpoise 1422121516971583 94 Cetacean sp. Indent. 120012210000 9 Total cetaceans 582314172212918104 124 Grey seal 220033761233164 88 Total animals 7 10 2 3 17 20 29 18 21 51 26 8 212 Table 2. 2001 Number of live cetacean strandings (Welsh Coast). Species Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec TOTAL Common dolphin 100000000000 1 Harbour porpoise 001100110000 4 Cetacean sp. Indent. 000000110000 2 Total animals 101100220000 7 Of the 124 cetacean strandings 5.6% live stranded (7 animals). Under post-mortem examination a larger number were determined as having live stranded. Table 3. 2001 Number of animals suitable for post-mortem examination. Species Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec TOTAL Common dolphin 100000000000 1 Harbour porpoise 002113554441 30 Risso's dolphin 000000001000 1 Total animals 102113555441 32 Of the 124 cetacean strandings, 25.8% (32 animals) were suitable for post-mortem examination. In addition, one Grey seal was also taken for post-mortem examination. 6 Table 4. 2001 Number of Animals decomposed / disposed of. (Welsh Coast). Species Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec TOTAL Bottlenose dolphin 000010101110 5 Common dolphin 020100220201 10 Risso's dolphin 000000000010 1 Harbour porpoise 1350011831631 42 Cetacean sp. Indent. 000011000000 2 Total cetaceans 15512121152952 60 Grey seal 22003374833124 78 Total animals 37515151891042176 138 Of the 212 strandings, 65% (138 animals) were decomposed and the relevant local council contacted for safe disposal of remains. Funding for seals again was limited throughout the year and this is reflected in the relatively high numbers of animals passed to local councils for safe disposal. The remaining 19.8% (42 animals) were confirmed reports but were found alive and returned to the sea, or were unable to be retrieved or disposed of due to various reasons. i.e. no access to stranding, washed away or retrospective reports. 100 Numbers of strandings increased again in 2001 as indicated by the reported Harbour 80 porpoise strandings shown in Figure 1. 60 It is not clear if the increase in reported 40 porpoise strandings each year is as a result of number increasing awareness by the general public of 20 the Strandings Project. Certainly, porpoises 0 killed by Bottlenose dolphins would appear to be an increasing factor in the last few 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 years (Figure 2) page 10. Year Figure 1. Reported Harbour porpoise strandings from the Welsh coast. 3.2 Unusual Occurrences SW2001/12 a freshly dead common dolphin (Delphinus delphis) was found floating in the Menai Straits.
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