Volume 5, Issue 1 June/July 2012

Editorial raises the issue of health implications of the COVID19 virus to marine animals. Detailed content to come.

Editorial overviews impact of COVID pandemic on world’s oceans. Articles cover a unique sighting documenting injury to wild young dolphin melon sighted in the Mississippi Sound, USA. Another presents an innovative approach for combining marking of phocid seals with biopsy sampling using a new type of livestock ear tag.

Editorial discusses what constitutes a publishable paper. Articles include a photographic documentation on dolphin skin disorders in Canary Islands. Another provides a detailed report of a mass herring fish kill event in Nova Scotia, Canada.