World Dolphin Day 12th September each year

Celebrate World Dolphin Day by organising a Dolphin Spotting Day!

So bring your binoculars, refreshments or a picnic to the top of any Cliffs or high point of land, and see how many dolphins we can spot in 3 hours! The best times of year is between end of March to September. Upload your sightings to the Sea Watch Foundation via their free app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.ac.bangor.seawatcher&hl=en_GB&pli=1

Dolphins make us all smile, these lovable characters hold a special place in all of our hearts and feature in children’s books and nature films.

Yet we rarely see a dolphin in our personal lifetimes, unless we dive, sail or go on a cruise.

But the dolphins swim around our UK islands every day. All Dolphin Sightings will be added Dolphin + Whale Database, so that we can begin to chart how many dolphins we have around the UK.

Blue Seas Protection and our Mascot, Lobby Lobster, is on a mission to Save Our UK Dolphins, who are being killed needlessly in the Faroe Island’s Grind Hunt. For more information visit our dedicated website: https://www.stopthegrindnow.org/blog

The UK Dolphins, who swim around our UK shores, also swim up to the Faroe Islands, which is north of Scotland.  Therefore these dolphins may be subjected to the Faroe Islands’ Grind Hunt, which is a mass slaughter of pilot whales (who are actually dolphins), and dolphins.  Traditionally, dolphins were never killed in the Grind Hunt, but as dolphins like to eat fish...the same fish that the Faroe Islands need to supply the UK Fish Market for our traditional Fish’n’Chips, the Faroese are now killing the dolphins to stop them eating all the fish.

The UK:Faroe FishTrade Agreement currently stands at £3.5 billion per year.  All the UK’s fish + crustaceans come from the Faroes, including our Cod + Haddock in our traditional Fish’n’Chips.  The Faroe Islands hold Grind Hunts every time they see a pod of dolphins and Pilot Whales swim by.  Fast speed boats, jet skis, Sat Nav + mobile phone technology mean that the pods of whales and dolphins have no chance to escape, so are driven into shallow bays and are slaughtered one by one.

With the support of Wildlife Campaigner, Dominic Dyer, Blue Seas Protection’s UK Government Petition ‘Suspend Trade Agreement with the Faroe Islands until all Whale + Dolphin Hunts End’, amassed over 106,000 signatories from every UK Constituency and 119 Countries worldwide.  This triggered a Parliamentary Debate in Westminster Hall, (only 150 UK.Gov petitions have ever been debated in the past 12 years) AND a Parliamentary Marine Mammal Inquiry.

The UK Government failed to suspend trade with the Faroes…instead they increased the trade from the original £3.5 million in 2019 to £3.5 billion.

In response Blue Seas Protection submitted Evidence to the Marine Mammal Inquiry (July 2022), and have just launched a 2nd UK + Global Petition to ‘Stop Trade with Countries who kill Whales and Dolphins’, to send a message to all governments, that the killing of all whales and dolphins must stop.  They are now recognised in UK Law as Sentient Beings who have the capacity to feel pain and grieve loss of pod members.

If you would like to help #StopTheGrindNow, please consider using your Consumer Fish Pound to boycott Faroes Fish to encourage the Grind Hunts to stop for ever. For more information please visit our website: https://www.stopthegrindnow.org/blog