Eight dolphins stranded themselves on a beach in Sea Isle City, New Jersey, Tuesday, two of which died and six of which had to be euthanized to prevent further suffering.
The pod was discovered at 11 a.m. local time, and aid soon arrived to try and help rescue the stranded cetaceans. A local resident said the eight swam straight toward the beach as part of a larger group of 50 or so dolphins.
“The remaining six dolphins were assessed by our veterinarian, and their conditions were rapidly deteriorating. The decision was made to humanely euthanize the dolphins to prevent further suffering, as returning them to the ocean would have only prolonged their inevitable death,” the New Jersey nonprofit Marine Mammal Stranding Center said in a Facebook post.
Experts have placed blame on ships hitting the whales, as well as fishing lines and other equipment, as the proximate cause of the surge in cetacean deaths. Others, however, blame sonar mapping on the seafloor that partly creates wind energy infrastructure.
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