Further supplementary memorandum submitted
by Nick Tregenza (C3c)
CETACEAN STRANDINGS—NUMBERS
FOR JANUARY
2004
In Cornwall this year we have had:
33 porpoises (an unprecedented number);
seven common dolphins; and
two unidentified species.
Those are the figures from the Environmental
Records Centre for Cornwall
and the Isles of Scilly, and will be animals notified
to the Natural History Museum who hold the national database.
17 porpoises and two common dolphins have gone for post-mortem
under the Defra scheme operated by the Institute of Zoology.
Stranded animals are now generally marked with
cable ties to avoid double-counting. Three have been reported
today, but until they have been seen we will not know that they
are actually new strandings.
Nick Tregenza
15 January 2004
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