Seal Group Meeting 17
Raising seal issues in the European Commission
Agenda items included
Our latest meeting took place on 30th August 2006 at the CPR Learning Space. We were delighted to welcome our 33rd new member - Sean, who shares our passion for Grey Seals.
Grateful thanks goes to Marie who has raised the issue of seal entanglement, using Nettle's example, on the European Commission's Maritime Affairs website.
We continue to explore any possible existing conservation status for the seals at their haul out sites and appreciate the time taken by the Police Wildlife Officer, English Nature staff and Cornwall Wildlife Trust to help clarify this issue.
An analysis of our observation and photo ID work between April and July showed that we ID'd 308 seals, 3% of whom are net entangled. Seals were disturbed on 10% of observations.
British Divers Marine Life Rescue have been on call to rescue 2 severely net entangled seals, one on the Scillies and one on Lundy.
If you would like to become an active member of the Cornwall Seal Group, want to come to our next meeting, have any information for us, want to ask us a question about the seals you see or just want to say you support what we are doing, we'd love to hear from you.
Contact us by emailing sue@cornwallsealgroup.co.uk
Interaction with humans : Disturbance
- Mounts Bay Code of Conduct
- Incidents of seal disturbance
- Seals and the law
Interaction with humans : Entanglement
- Marine Bill Consultation
- MEP and European Commission
Interaction with humans : Information
- Conservation status of haul out sites
- Cornwall Sea Fisheries Committee
- Sea Watch Foundation
- Local groups
- Posters - Never feed wild seals
- Talks
- Websites : CWT
Updates from Seal Group ID work
Records and Reports
- Summary of records April to July 2006
- New records
Updates from Seal Group ID work
Seal research
- Countryside Council for Wales
- English Nature
- University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus
Updates from Seal Group ID work
Seal numbers
- IDs
- Averages
- Haul outs
- Predictions
Updates from Seal Group ID work
Seal sightings
- Strandings
- Hatties and tags
- Rescues and releases
Updates from Seal Group ID work
Seal news
- Newquay
- Lundy
- Scillies
- Porlock
- Tamar and Lynher
Feedback
- British Divers Marine Life Rescue
- National Seal Sanctuary
- National Trust
- Cornwall Wildlife Trust
AOB
- Finances
- Sunfish
- Film night