Orcas spotted swimming off coast of Cornwall | ITV News
Two orca whales have been seen off the coast of West Cornwall. | ITV News West Country
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More than likely tim, the article suggests these are part of the west coast community pod, that group of 8 are occasionally spotted off the coast of Ireland and Scotland. That being the case there's no reason why they wouldn't pop down Cornwall for a spot of sightseeing.Who knows they may be part of an established pod that could have been swimming in our coastal waters all along.
Kinda counter intuitive and paradoxical. According to climate change boffins they should be migrating northwards.What next, a walrus in wales
That is certainly very far south for orca. I know there is a resident pod off Scotland but didn't think they ventured much further down.
The French have threatened to make it like a re-run of the Battle of Trafalgar.Meanwhile, I’ve got french boats off the coast of Jersey, but that’s not unheard of 😁
I have seen orca in the tropics and the artic/antartic, there’s no reason to not have them here, depending on what type, they are split into type A, B etc, partly on body characteristics and partly on diet, seal hunters don’t tend to eat fish for instance. these ones are normally seen between Scotland and farces, with one of them being the famous John CoeWhat next, a walrus in wales
That is certainly very far south for orca. I know there is a resident pod off Scotland but didn't think they ventured much further down.
The UK used to have a massive Tuna fishery, with a awful lot landed in ports like Hull, we got too good and hunted them to commercial extension, Norway has a 3t quota, here they are not allowed to be landed with out MMO permission, but seen them in large schools all around the UK, so that protection will probably get lifted soonThey could be following the tuna thats been reported of the cornish coast.
It goes <"back to the 1930's"> but they were already in decline because of the demise of the Herring shoals.Suppose those huge container ships which had a production factory on board did the overfishing damage