Salmon smolt production had highest sensitivity to the stranding mortality of older juvenile fish, suggesting that stranding of fish at these life-stages is likely to have greater population impacts than that of earlier life-stages.
In a sense, the stranding of such a large group of pilot whales is a perversion of this adaptive trait.
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Forth Coastguard was alerted to the incident shortly after 7am, with initial reports suggesting a mass stranding of dolphins.
Scotland's environment secretary, Richard Lochhead, said: "I am very concerned to hear about this stranding of pilot whales on Skye.
A lack of communication was blamed in the stranding of hundreds of passengers at Bradley International Airport, outside Hartford, when a snowstorm hit the Northeast Oct. 29.
AMERICA'S Department of Transportation has fined the three airlines involved in the overnight stranding of passengers in Rochester, Minnesota on August 8th a total of $175,000.
Tony Woodley of British Divers Marine Life Rescue called the event the biggest mass stranding of marine life in Britain since 1981, and he said most of the dolphins would probably die.
That episode and others — including JetBlue Airways' stranding of 21 planes for more than four hours in New York in February — exposed industry weaknesses and set off consumer protests and calls for tougher airline regulations.
Curiously, the stranding on Isla San José followed by just one day the stranding of at least 14 other beaked whales 5,700 miles away along the Canary Islandsbeaches of Lanzarote and Fuerteventura.
Despite the stranding of the ship – not to mention the heroic fate of the Chinese ice-breaker Xue Long, which remains trapped in thick pack ice after steaming to its rescue – the IAATO insists it's very much business as usual.
