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A live whale was returned to the sea in April in Santander / PHOTO: RED CROSS
From March until May 8, the bodies of thirteen dead dolphins arrived on the coast of Cantabria and beached on their beaches. At the same time, a rorqual was found alive on the Santander beach of Bikini and a seal on Ajo, which were returned to their natural environment.
They are data offered in the plenary session of the Parliament by the Minister of Rural Affairs, Fisheries and Food, Jesus Oria, when questioned by Podemos and on whether the result of the necropsies carried out by the general direction indicate that his death could be caused by fishing accidental in pelagic trawlers.
To this question, the counselor has indicated that only a necropsy can be performed when the mammal’s body is still in good condition and when its length does not exceed four meters. In the case of the 13 bodies of dolphins found since March, it has been possible to perform a necropsy on four of them and the information on three of them is already available.
In at least two of them, the counselor has acknowledged, the bodies show injuries that show that the death was caused by “entrapment in networks”. One is located on the beach of Galizano and another in the Bocal de Santander, and both had a broken jaw, a lesion characteristic of mammals that die after being caught in networks of fishing boats.
Oria has detailed that Cantabria has a network of tracking of strandings since 2010, and since then a total of 204 marine mammals have been beached on our beaches , which are taken care of by the Medio Medio kindergarten. This, he explained, he transferred to the Wildlife Recovery Center of Villaescusa to perform the necropsy if possible and, if not, the body is cremated in the center of Meruelo or buried in its environment in case that the Maritime Museum of the Bay of Biscay requests the skeleton.
Courtesy of eldiariomontanes.es
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