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The Loch Ness Monster

WeeScottishLassie said:
Why did they shoot the poor thing? :(
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I'm making the assumption that they were fishermen & didn't want it eating any of 'their' fish. There were reports of it following fishing boats & when they upped the revs to get away it just put in a bit more effort & kept up with them.
 
hunck said:
I'm making the assumption that they were fishermen & didn't want it eating any of 'their' fish. There were reports of it following fishing boats & when they upped the revs to get away it just put in a bit more effort & kept up with them.
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Poor seal :sorry:
 
I dont have a reference for this.

But I believe its the conservationists. (Or whoevers in charge of the water)

Which is silly seeing as ONE seal is not much of a threat to the fish and you get prosecuted for looking at a pinniped funny if they are in the sea.
 
Kondoru said:
I dont have a reference for this.

But I believe its the conservationists. (Or whoevers in charge of the water)

Which is silly seeing as ONE seal is not much of a threat to the fish and you get prosecuted for looking at a pinniped funny if they are in the sea.
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Do you?? :oops:

I'll be careful to make sure that I do not look at one in a creepy way the next time I see one in the sea!
 
They had leaflets in the Manx nature heritage shop; Guides to protocol around seals IN and OUT of the water...

I did not read them.

And I saw a sign in Findhorn Bay...it a designated seal haulout area. (Seals have designated areas..)

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"If you approach seals you may be breaking the law..."

(Id like to see a seal in court...)

"up to six months in prison and/or a fine up to £5000..."

(Does that look like a good money raiser to you?)

When we were there we head an incredibly loud engine, as of an illegal motorcycle, we thought at first. The noise grew louder and we saw a rib out to sea...on closer approach it was not an RNLI rib, but one from the local marine mammal watching business....

...There are some incredible hypocrites in the area.
 
Kondoru said:
They had leaflets in the Manx nature heritage shop; Guides to protocol around seals IN and OUT of the water...

I did not read them.

And I saw a sign in Findhorn Bay...it a designated seal haulout area. (Seals have designated areas..)

(File too big to upload...)

"If you approach seals you may be breaking the law..."

(Id like to see a seal in court...)

"up to six months in prison and/or a fine up to £5000..."

(Does that look like a good money raiser to you?)

When we were there we head an incredibly loud engine, as of an illegal motorcycle, we thought at first. The noise grew louder and we saw a rib out to sea...on closer approach it was not an RNLI rib, but one from the local marine mammal watching business....

...There are some incredible hypocrites in the area.
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My ex was attacked by a seal :oops:

To be fair he was very young at the time as he approached a baby one and the mother went mental!

I had no idea that there were such strict laws for them though!
 
WeeScottishLassie said:
Why did they shoot the poor thing? :(
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There is salmon farming in Loch Ness. Seals love salmon. Another problem is that a seal in a salmon farm goes into “fox in a hen coop” mode, taking one bite out of every salmon it can get its teeth into.

Back in the Eighties, seal shooting was unregulated; today it is banned, mainly because its continuance would imperil exports of salmon to the USA.

“The latest data shows 31 seals were shot under licence in the first three months of 2020, double that of last year. The Scottish Salmon Producers Organisation (SSPO) said seal predation and net breaches lead to 500,000 lost fish a year.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...lmon-farmers-to-be-banned-from-shooting-seals

Context:

The UK has an estimated 124,000 grey seals and at least 33,400 harbour seals.

“...31 seals were shot under licence in the first three months of 2020...”

maximus otter
 
maximus otter said:
There is salmon farming in Loch Ness. Seals love salmon. Another problem is that a seal in a salmon farm goes into “fox in a hen coop” mode, taking one bite out of every salmon it can get its teeth into.

Back in the Eighties, seal shooting was unregulated; today it is banned, mainly because its continuance would imperil exports of salmon to the USA.

“The latest data shows 31 seals were shot under licence in the first three months of 2020, double that of last year. The Scottish Salmon Producers Organisation (SSPO) said seal predation and net breaches lead to 500,000 lost fish a year.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...lmon-farmers-to-be-banned-from-shooting-seals

Context:

The UK has an estimated 124,000 grey seals and at least 33,400 harbour seals.

“...31 seals were shot under licence in the first three months of 2020...”

maximus otter
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That's really interesting, thank you :)
 
There's a big colony of seals on Walney just over the bay,

https://www.cumbriawildlifetrust.org.uk/wildlife/cams/seal-cam

We often see them here the ferry crew sometimes have to encourage
them off the slipway a mate that works for the fisheries had a bit of a
frightener when on the new island off Fleetwood when he heard a commotion
coming nearer only for a seal to appear round a rock.

There was a odd looking skeleton washed up a week or two back I suspect it
was a Dolphin but can't find the pic at the moment. long nose with
lots of teeth.

Found it.

skeliton.jpg
 
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RaM said:
There's a big colony of seals on Walney just over the bay,

https://www.cumbriawildlifetrust.org.uk/wildlife/cams/seal-cam

We often see them here the ferry crew sometimes have to encourage
them off the slipway a mate that works for the fisheries had a bit of a
frightener when on the new island off Fleetwood when he heard a commotion
coming nearer only for a seal to appear round a rock.

There was a odd looking skeleton washed up a week or two back I suspect it
was a Dolphin but can't find the pic at the moment. long nose with
lots of teeth.

Found it.

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I'd love to find something like that!
 
Quite upsetting but this was our beach yesterday, a small wale washed up overnight,
some are just to big to remove in one go, one was buried were it lay a year or two
back, when you look at it's size re the machinery around it and this is a small one it's
no wonder people see monsters.

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RaM said:
Quite upsetting but this was our beach yesterday, a small wale washed up overnight,
some are just to big to remove in one go, one was buried were it lay a year or two
back, when you look at it's size re the machinery around it and this is a small one it's
no wonder people see monsters.

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Very sad :(
 
RaM said:
There's a big colony of seals on Walney just over the bay,

https://www.cumbriawildlifetrust.org.uk/wildlife/cams/seal-cam

We often see them here the ferry crew sometimes have to encourage
them off the slipway a mate that works for the fisheries had a bit of a
frightener when on the new island off Fleetwood when he heard a commotion
coming nearer only for a seal to appear round a rock.

There was a odd looking skeleton washed up a week or two back I suspect it
was a Dolphin but can't find the pic at the moment. long nose with
lots of teeth.

Found it.

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Dolphin skeleton.
 
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Loch Ness Monster ‘caught on sonar’ as 30ft shape detected 500ft below surface

The image was caught by Cruise Loch Ness director Ronald Mackenzie while he was skippering a catamaran on Wednesday afternoon:

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The image, if it does show the Loch Ness Monster, would indicate the creature is around 33ft long

Mackenzie, 49, said: “We were at our halfway point off Invermoriston, where we turn around. The water is 620ft deep there.

“The passengers were quite excited because we had just spotted a sea eagle, but then I saw on the sonar something more eye-catching.

“It was right in the middle of the loch at about 558ft down. It was big – at least 33ft. The contact lasted 10 seconds while we passed over.

“I’ve been on the loch since I was 16 years old and I have never seen anything like it. We have real state-of-the-art sonar on the new boat. It doesn’t lie. It captures what’s there.

All the dots nearer the surface are shoals of Arctic char and deeper down there are ferox trout, so it gives you a good idea of the size of this large crescent shape.

I believe there’s something in the loch that nobody knows what it is, be it a big eel or a sturgeon or a big fish of some sort – or even Nessie.”

Sonar expert Craig Wallace said the image was “100 per cent genuine,” reports the Daily Record.

https://www.the-sun.com/news/1586092/loch-ness-monster-sonar-image-boat-skipper/

maximus otter
 
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