A pygmy sperm whale has washed up on a North Side beach overnight.The dead, 14-feet long whale was discovered in the morning hours of Wednesday, 21 December, on the beach at Northern Lights condos near Old Man Bay.
Department of Environment conservation officer Carl Edwards arrived at the scene at 6.20am and by mid-morning, he and others were trying to figure out how to get the whale off the beach.
“The seas are too rough to get a boat in there,” he said. “Ideally, I’d like to drag it back out to sea and put it back into the food chain and let the fish feed on it,” he said.
One of the options facing those tasked with removing the whale’s body before it starts decomposing and smelling is to drag it off the beach by truck to another site, cut it up and drop the body parts back into the ocean. Read More
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