Sperm whale found dead off Cape Breton after swallowing 150 kg of fishing gear | CBC News

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A necropsy last week found the whale had swallowed rope, nets, bait packaging, and even a glove.

Marine Animal Response Society says marine mammal died of starvation due to plastic mass in stomachMembers of the Marine Animal Response Society and the Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative at the Atlantic Veterinary College perform a necropsy on a sperm whale in Cape Breton.

 

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This is so horrible.

Plastics are coming to get us now,more so than Global warming.

I wonder why no one watches CBC except on Monday nights to see Coronation Street. That’s it. That’s all you got. 1 day/wk for 1 hr of viewership.

ARE YOU SURE IT DIDN'T SWALLOW A HOLE BUNCH OF BULLSHIT TOO! MAYBE A SHOPPING CART A,COUPLE OF TIRES PEHAPS

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Scary

Our governments decided to send garbage overseas to have it dumped overboard instead of deal with it in the country intended.......... when are they held accountable?

I am so sad. Our planet is dying and everything that goes with it. We did this.😔

💔💔💔🤬 webrokeparadise 😞

I remember being in the Navy, hundreds bags of garbage was thrown overboard evernight, this practiced ended late 90’s

So sad

Was captain ahab inside?

That’s terrible, fishing industry needs to do better.

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Awww, poor thing. The amount of garbage & fishing gear in our oceans is a disgrace.

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