It includes common dolphins, endangered turtles, fur seals, 600-year-old corals, and hundreds of seabirds.

The trio of common dolphins swam up the Lee's south channel shortly after lunchtime.

A pod of common dolphins has been captured on film swimming in a Cornish harbour.

For a marginal increase in profits, the trawler firms could be driving common dolphins towards regional extinction.

Short-beaked common dolphins feed on a variety of prey, including surface schooling fish species and small mid-water fish and squids.

At the end of January at least eight common dolphins have been found dead on the beaches of Achill Island, Co Mayo.

Initially the pods in the bay were observed feeding only on marine mammals, like common dolphins and the occasional Cape fur seal.

The Conservation charity The Sea Trust said the Common Dolphins were seen from the Rosslare to Fishguard ferry in calm seas on Wednesday morning.