Two humpback whales were found dead off the coasts of New York and New Jersey, according to local officials.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced the presence of the two whales in a Wednesday Facebook post. One whale was off Wainscott, New York, and the other in Raritan Bay, New Jersey, the agency said.
The first whale, which drifted into Shinnecock Inlet and was brought to shore in Southampton, was a 47-foot-long male, the agency reported. The cause of death was “suspected blunt force trauma.” The cause of death was identified as “suspect blunt & sharp force trauma consistent with vessel strike,” the post said. Samples were collected and the whale was buried on the beach.Humpback whale deaths on the East Coast have been on the rise since January 2016, according to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration records. The agency declared a “Humpback Whale Unusual Mortality Event Along the Atlantic Coast” in April 2017.
The agency said while more research is needed to fully understand the cause of the deaths, 40 percent of whales that underwent necropsies showed “evidence of human interaction, either ship strike or entanglement.”
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