Ken Whelan

OK, so April 1st is the time when the little baby salmon that have been laid as eggs around Christmas Day

When those particular eggs then hatch, they form tiny little creatures called alevins that have a little yellow yolk sac.

And they feed off the little yolk sac inside the little gaps in the gravel until around the end of March.

And we conveniently say that the 1st of April is the date when they come up, sit on their little rock, open their little mouths and start feeding actively themselves.

And that happens to be my birthday as well.

Yeah, I think it was, yeah, 2022, yeah.

So the Greenland shark, as Eanna was saying, I mean, it's very famous, obviously, for being so long-lived.

But not just the Greenland shark, but quite a number of different sharks are very important to all of those different islands.

I was smiling when Eanna was telling the story about the Greenland shark that you were presented with.

I was presented not with a Greenland shark, but with another...

type of shark in the Faroes I can still remember the ammoniacal smell that ammonia burning my nose I couldn't face it and I'm sorry I eat most things but I really couldn't I should have had the drink with it but the interesting thing about the Greenland situation at the moment I was giving a talk for the Oceanographic magazine in London a few weeks ago and we were talking about Greenland

all the attention is on Greenland now and to some extent I hope from an environmental point of view it might help because Greenland is changing and it's changing fast and it strikes me as very interesting that one of these poor creatures should arrive on our coast at the very time when there's such incredible changes happening around Greenland.

And one thing I pointed out during my talk in London was the fact that we talk a lot about the Northwest Passage.

But in fact, the other side, the Northeast Passage, is one that everyone from a political point of view, from an environmental point of view, are starting to look at.

Because the whole continent is beginning to actually see a situation where there's water either side of the continent.

This is shifting and moving everything.

And what is the North West Passage?

Yes, I can, yeah.

Many, many years ago, a lot of the explorers tried to find this North West Passage.

So what they were trying to do was they were trying to slip by, if you can imagine a map