A nearly 50-foot-long fin whale has washed up on a beach near the Tony Knowles Coastal Trail in West Anchorage.
ANCHORAGE , Alaska - A nearly 50-foot-long fin whale washed up on a beach near the Tony Knowles Coastal Trail in West Anchorage over the weekend.
A nearly 50-foot-long fin whale washed up on a beach near the Tony Knowles Coastal Trail in West Anchorage over the weekend.Barbara Mahoney, a biologist with NOAA Fisheries, was at the site of the beached whale on Monday and said the whale is a “very young” female. The whale itself, which is an endangered animal, measures about 47 feet long. Mahoney said it’s been tough to collect samples due to the whale carcass being mostly frozen.“And to be honest, having stranded animals like this in November — this might be the first for me, and I’ve been here a long time.”Fin whales are found in the Gulf of Alaska and the Bering Sea, and have also been well-documented in the Lower Cook Inlet, according to NOAA.
Biologists anchored the whale to the beach so that it would not float away as they collected samples. Mahoney said that once the collection process is finished, the whale will be untethered and able to float back into the ocean.
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