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Massive blue whale washes ashore in southern Chile

  • By Al Mayadeen English
  • Source: Agencies
  • 6 Aug 2023 22:28
2 Min Read

Sernapesca's regional director Cristian Hudson told local media that "given its condition, the whale must have died at sea some time ago and drifted in that state."

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  • Massive blue whale washes ashore in southern Chile 
    A blue whale exhales through its blowhole in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Long Beach, California. (AFP)

A gigantic blue whale, considered the biggest mammal on the planet, washed up on a beach in southern Chile on Sunday, according to local authorities.

Residents of Ancud, on Chiloe island, discovered the massive marine animal Saturday on a Pacific Ocean beach 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) south of Santiago.
 
Sernapesca agents ordered to investigate confirmed the carcass was that of "a large cetacean of the family of Balaenopteridae," according to a post on the X platform previously known as Twitter. The agency added, "We helped identify the specimen and, based on preliminary evidence, it is a blue whale."

Read more: 'Gold' worth $543,000 found in dead whale on Canary Islands shore

Sernapesca's regional director Cristian Hudson told local media that "given its condition, the whale must have died at sea some time ago and drifted in that state." 
 
Environmental organizations observed that the area's waterways are widely used by the fishing industry and marine traffic, and they demanded an inquiry to discover whether the whale was the victim of a collision.
 
According to the non-governmental Cetacean Conservation Center (CCC) of Chile, the family of Balaenopteridae, or rorquals, encompasses a wide range of species, from the nine-meter (30-foot) minke whale to the blue whale, which may grow to be up to 30 meters long.

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