FILE - In this May 6, 2019 file photo, Duat Mai stands atop a dead whale at Ocean Beach in San Francisco. Federal officials are asking waterfront landowners in western Washington to volunteer their properties to be the final resting place for dead gray whales. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries says so many gray whale carcasses have washed up this year they've run out of locations where they can be left to decompose.
So many gray whale carcasses have washed up this year that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries says it has run out of places to take them. But the carcasses can be up to 40 feet long. That’s a lot to decay, and it could take months. Landowner Mario Rivera of Port Hadlock, Washington, told“It is really a unique opportunity to have this here on the beach and monitor it and see how fast it goes,” said his wife, Stefanie Worwag.
On the U.S. West coast, about 70 whales have been found dead this year along California, Oregon, Washington and Alaska, the most since 2000. About five were found on British Columbia beaches. Still, that’s a small fraction of the total number because most sink or wash up in remote areas and are unrecorded.
ai6yrham Wow!
I’m all for saving the whales! Can we please save the human babies too?!
It is shocking how tasteless the responses have been to this article. This is not something funny or designed for fertilizer. Ppl are unbelievably dense
Break my heart, why don’t you!
Could this be from other countries pollution like China or from the effects of the Japanese tsunami years past. How does weather play into this?
I thought the beach was public land?
This has nothing to do with climate change people, stop being so naïve
This is awful. Our planet is dying right before our eyes.
waste from Japans nuke reactor washing into sea killing everthing
Gray whale Now that we are sending you to The End That great god Tell him That we who follow you invented forgiveness And forgive nothing - W. S. Merwin
disastrous
Sushi anyone?
Drag them back out to sea with a little dynamite 🧨
Proof?
Making America Great....
Sushi special all week
Tow them out to sea for fish to eat
It is so sad that so many of these magnificent animals are dying.
They were probably too close to the underwater nuclear tests by North Korea. They could be radioactive.
Yikes! And still we ignore our dying plastic-filled ocean sad
Trump, when in Britain recently, should have asked the “Prince of Whales” how to fix this problem!
If we still hinted them this wouldn’t be a problem
Climate Change Theatens 1 Million Species with EXTINCTION & the Polar Regions are our canaries...
Revelations 8:7-11 3 angels, Messengers sent with signs of WARNING: 1 Burns up 1/3 of Earth 1 Kills 1/3 of Seas’ Life, Rev. 8:8-9 & 1 Poisons 1/3 of Earth’s ground waters. WE ARE WELL ON THE WAY! But like Jonah’s Nineveh, WARNINGS TIMELY HEEDED WILL SAVE! TIME IS SHORT!
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DustinH06482581 😔
3L3V3NTH Any necropsies being undertaken to determine cause of death
3L3V3NTH Sooooo sad... The inhumanity to control climate change and air quality and to keep our oceans free and clear from trash dumping cruise lines oil tankers fisherman etc... This is our planet and we have to live on it stop being f****** pigs
'On the U.S. West coast, about 70 whales have been found dead this year ... the most since 2000.... NOAA Fisheries late last month declared the die-off an 'unusual mortality event''. | NOAAFisheries
Sell them to the japanese maybe they'll stop whaling
Fukishima? 😕
oh well the whales were here before we were so
TimOBrien 😢
Man is destroying the planet. It’s only a matter of time. Too many people and the inability of the species to sacrifice for the greater good.
I hear Mar-a-Lago is accustomed to large, decaying blobs of flesh regularly in residence there, albeit one with fake orange skin and a bad toupee, so why not ask realDonaldTrump to have a roommate or two or ten?
Just tow them back out into the ocean let nature due it’s thing.
I know what to do!!!!!
TimOBrien They could always blow those whale carcasses up with dynomite -- NOT.
Yes please allow me to let a giant bus-sized animal decompose on my lawn
But we have no plastic problems and no climate problems. Let’s just keep doing what we are doing, I’m sure everything will be fine.
Good grief
Dont stand on a whale corpse thats just wrong
Hopefully the same Federal Officials don’t operate any cemeteries.
Now those landowners can create jobs getting that whale oil.
How awful... and is anyone figuring out why? No, I suspect not because this administration doesn'r believe climate change exists. 😞
On the cusp of the next great extinction
Washington state waterfront owners asked to take dead whales? Watch your language! 'Taking' a dead whale is likely a violation of some Federal Code of Regulations or U.S Code or something like that. It might even be a felony. Who the fuck knows?
How does BBQ whale taste? Whales washington
Run out of places to take them? Why not just tow them outside of the environment?
Japan dropped the bomb on everybody
So what your saying is I could call dibs on a whole dead whale and just take it home?
It wasn’t that long ago that a whale carcass was worth its weight in gold. Crazy. That’s capitalism for you folks.
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The deceased whales, God bless them, would make GREAT fertiizer. Hope they do it but Washington state neeed to foot the bill, not the locals.
What? Wow. How about we get actively engaged in cleaning our oceans.
Marfoogle Thebubbanews
In Iceland they would be carving it up and putting it on sandwiches.
Oh, poor things. I thought they just towed them out to sea and let sharks eat them.
A dead whale on the beach is like the saddest thing ever. :(
Take them to Mar Lago.
all of that because our actions are increasingly day-to-day ignoring the surrounding environment, thinking too selfishly ourselves , getting stronger The effect of globalization which results in a polluted environment where
i need a whale in my yard for fertilizer
Sell them to the Japs.
That sounds like a crazy idea....
Can’t they make oil out of them? I know killing them for oil is frowned upon, but if they’re already dead...
Call in the Eskimos n Japanese they like whale.
Nuclear fallout fukushima!!
On the next episode of Man Vs Food...
ewwwww, now that's a smell
What's causing the increase in deaths?
Or they could figure out why whales keep dying and maybe stop it from happening
No ships heading up to straving polar bear areas that could tow & let go carcasses for the hungry?
Just blow them up with dynamite. What could go wrong?
Can't...can't you just drag them back out in the water and let nature do its thing?
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They’re asking an awful lot of those homeowners! That smell is horrific & unbearable and it last for months and months and months.
Yeah it’s called history
I'm sure it smells wonderful.
That's very stupid idea