An Australian destroyer pulled into San Diego Bay last weekend with an unexpected cargo: two dead fin whales lodged against the ship’s hull.The larger carcass belonged to a female adult measuring 65 feet long, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The other was much smaller at 25 feet long, probably a calf.
“Oftentimes, [mariners] don’t know until they come in and stop,” said Justin Viezbicke, coordinator of NOAA’s California Marine Mammal Stranding Network. “That’s when the whale falls off and floats out.” Navy crews at the base tied the carcasses to a dock against booms to prevent the whales from drifting into the harbor’s traffic lanes. NOAA scientists took skin and blubber samples, which will be analyzed at the Southwest Fisheries Science Center in La Jolla.
“We think it’s somewhere in the neighborhood of 5% or less of the number of ship strikes occurring are getting documented,” said Calambokidis, a senior research biologist and a founder of Cascadia Research Collective, a nonprofit based in Olympia, Wash. Fin and blue whales are also frequently found in shipping lanes, and they spend a lot of their time at the surface, particularly at night, he said.
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