New Years Honours: Plymouth mum among people honoured by the Queen
Christina Peacock has been awarded the British Empire Medal
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Robin Hood s Bay, near Whitby
In the summer of 2020, 30 per cent more surveys of cetacean sightings were submitted by volunteers watching from the shore, with 162 completed compared to 124 in 2019. Most of the whales seen were minkes, but Jono Leadley from the Trust also filmed a humpback breaching the water off Flamborough Head in a video that went viral.
There are now 40 citizen scientist volunteers who have been trained by Living Seas staff to record whale, dolphin and porpoise sightings. In 2020, they spent 200 hours surveying from 30 locations.
There have been increases in minke sightings since 2015, and local boat owners have responded by running whale-watching tours for visitors.