‘Nothing left’: Irish whale-watching company closes amid ‘overfishing’ Sprat fishing has disrupted the food chain and diverted humpback, minke and fin whales as well as dolphins

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#MarineLife 🦑
#Whales🐋
#Dolphins 🐬
#Sprats
#overfishing
Fried sprats used to be sold in pots by the roadside in #Jamaica (never see them now).

Drawing from around 1910 depicting Rhos Fynach fish trap Wales. "The Archaeological and Historical Significance of Intertidal Fish Traps at Llanon, Cardigan Bay."

Historical records show #salmon, #sprats & #mullet both secular and monastic groups were fished with the weir. These fish #weirs, are heavily characterised by the nature of their building construction and adoption to date rocky shoreline of much of Wales coastal landscapes. 2/4

Silver sprats with the sunshine glinting in their scales shot as I swam underneath them

Sprats swimming around a brain coral

A tarpon moving through a shoal of sprats

Sprats with little dark eyes

If you have never swum with ten thousand little eyes watching you, in a shape-shifting silver shoal that darts and swirls around you…then it is an experience worth seeking out whilst stocks last

#fishspam
#sprats

hello friends #rigasprouts #sprats #sprotten #yummy #vsco #vscocam http://instagram.com/p/xH3OBRp3Z3/