Fisheries officials to examine dead right whale that washed ashore in N.L.
TROUT RIVER, N.L. — The latest North Atlantic right whale to be found dead on the East Coast is so decomposed officials say we will likely never know what killed it.
“It’s a very flattened whale. It’s like a right whale pancake, so it’s been drifting and dead for quite a while,” Jack Lawson, a research scientist with the Fisheries Department, said in an interview.
Lawson said the whale washed up on a rocky shore near Trout River in western Newfoundland.
Lawson said based on the degree of decay, it’s possible the remains belong to one of the eight North Atlantic right whales seen floating in the Gulf of St. Lawrence in recent weeks.