This whale is the 30th humpback to be found stranded on the East Coast this year.
A dead humpback whale washed ashore on the New Jersey coast Saturday night, marking the latest whale death in an unusual mortality event that has resulted in hundreds of fatalities on the East Coast since 2016—a problem scientists have blamed partly on ships and fishing nets.... [+]
The Marine Mammal Stranding Center is working to collect information about the whale—like measurements and biological samples to see if they can determine a case of death—through a necropsy.Patch New Jersey that the dead humpback at Takanassee Beach was small and appeared to be a baby or juvenile.29.
by the government as an unexpected stranding that “involves a significant die-off of any marine mammal population and demands immediate response”—for humpback whale strandings from Maine to Florida in 2017, though it retroactively included whale deaths in 2016.Since 1991, 72 marine mammal unusual mortality events have occurred, five of which are active now and three of which are for whales.
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