Sharks in the Bay Workshop

Substance of the workshop as follows MORECAMBE BAY PARTNERSHIP AGM & CONFERENCE. October 21st 2004. Elms Hotel. Morecambe. SHARKS IN THE BAY WORKSHOP. Historical Aspects. Barrow-Fleetwood-Heysham-Glasson great ports in recent years and today. Great modern ships. Ulverston-Arnside-Milnthorpe-Carnforth-Lancaster great ports of yesterday. Small sailing vessels trading to ports all over the world. Refuse from ships with sharks following ships into our coastal waters. Phylum Chordata. Subphylum. Pisces. Sharks. Mako Shark. Following ships into our waters. Porbeagle. Following herring shoals into our coastal waters. Thresher of Fox Shark. Dogfish. =Rough Hound or Rock Salmon. Nurse Hound. Spurdog. Or Picked Dogfish. Tope a summer bottom-feeding visitor to our shores. Smooth Hound a bottom feeder visiting in summer. Blue Shark. A deep-sea shark but will follow fish shoals into our waters. Common Hammerhead Shark. Following ships into our waters. Monkfish a bottom feeder. Torpedo. = Electric Ray. Skate. Rays. Sturgeon. Ocean Sun Fish. Mammals. Otter. Walrus. Greenland Harp Seal. Common Seal. Grey Seal. Bearded Seal. Common Dolphin. BN Dolphin. Killer Whale. Pilot Whale. Harbour Porpoise. BN Whale. Minke Whale. Sei Whale. Fin Whale. Humpback Whale. Cnidaria. Compass Jellyfish. Lion’s Mane Jellyfish. Common Jellyfish. Rootmouth or Cauliflower Jellyfish. Portuguese Man o War. By the wind Sailor. 2004 Sighting data. Events of 16.05.04 Recording and identification course summer 2005 At sea in Morecambe Bay summer 2005 Q & A. Collins Pocket Guide .Sea Shore.1996. ISBN 0 00 219955 6 Whale & Dolphin Conservation Society. www.wdcs.org. The SeaWatch Foundation. www.seawatchfoundation.org.uk International Dolphin Watch www.idw.org The Shark Trust. www.sharktrust.org. British Marine Life Study Society www.glaucus.org.uk/AdurToadstools.htmn Marine Conservation Society www.mcsuk.org Whale & Dolphin. UK only independent magazine dedicated to whales & dolphins. www.wdmg.co.uk. Solway Shark Watch & Sea Mammal Survey www.communigate.co.uk/lakes/solwaysharkwatch/index.phtml www.thisisthelakedistrict.co.uk to communigate to SSW&SMS Tel:016973 20440. Posted 20/10/04