11 October 2022 In the early afternoon of Monday, September 5, the Quebec Marine Mammal Emergency Response Network call centre receives a report concerning an Atlantic white-sided dolphin carcass floating near the mouth…
26 March 2019 The appearance of Atlantic white-sided dolphins in the St. Lawrence never goes unnoticed. They swim in tight formations, successively bouncing across the water surface and sometimes riding the waves of…
30 November 2023 Dozens of Atlantic white-sided dolphins, a late humpback, a minke whale here, belugas there... There’s so much marine fauna in the St. Lawrence this November that it almost feels like…
29 September 2023 They swim in groups in successive leaps, a palette of colours radiating above the water surface. We can distinguish white and grey, topped by a yellow stripe and dark blue.…
7 October 2021 Thousands of successive leaps over the surface of a sparkling sea. White-sided dolphins were present by the hundreds off Port-Cartier and Sept-Îles this week. It is common to see dozens…
17 September 2020 “What? Dolphins? Here?” wonders one reader. For many people, when the talk turns to dolphins, the first thing that comes to mind is Flipper, a bottlenose dolphin. But in reality,…
11 July 2019 Measuring 2 to 2.7 metres long, their toned bodies are black, white, grey and yellowish-beige. Atlantic white-sided dolphins! Fifteen or so individuals were seen leaping in Gaspé Bay on July 5.…
24 October 2017 Large golden-brown spots can be seen when a fin whale appears – for example, one of the eight individuals observed on October 22 by Jacques Gélineau, collaborator for the Nordic…
27 March 2017 Two white-sided dolphin carcasses were discovered in Sainte-Flavie on March 21. A resident of this Lower St. Lawrence town and volunteer for Marine Mammal Emergencies discovered it during his daily…
14 October 2016 Marine Mammal Emergencies has been busy since early fall, especially with incidents involving live stranded dolphins. On September 28, six white-sided dolphins were trapped in a shallow bay in Lamèque,…