The animals have been decaying on the isolated stretch of sand north of Manatee Cove Park
It was hoped the whale would find its way out without help, as it did not initially appear to be in any distress.
Local beekeepers suspect pesticides used for controlling mosquitoes may be the cause.
Sargassum, a type of seaweed, is creating problems as it washes up across the Caribbean.
Weak returns forced the latest restriction. Good news: Sockeye fishing at the Russian River is forecast to be good.
A total of 94 brown bears, five black bears and five wolves were killed in the program that began May 10 and ended June 4, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game said this week. That’s more than four times the number biologists predicted would be taken. State biologists also say disease and changing food supplies might be a bigger factor overall.
The carcasses of four gray whales have been found around the San Francisco Bay Area in eight days -- an alarming string of deaths that constitutes an unusual mortality event, defined by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) as a significant die-off of a marine species.
Chum returns are the lowest on record, leaving communities with empty freezers and uncertainty about getting through the winter.
The UK has been facing its largest ever outbreak of avian influenza, with cases found around Scotland including a recent outbreak on the remote archipelago of St Kilda.Samples were taken from hundreds of dead birds found on East Lothian beaches.
The sea lions have posed a long-running conundrum for wildlife officials, pitting mammals protected under federal law against protected — and valuable — fish runs.
The dolphins were part of a group of more than 50 that got into difficulty in the Cromarty Firth.
Starting on Wednesday, May 22, hundreds of Common Murres, an ocean-going bird native to the Pacific Coast from the Channel Islands to the tip of the Aleutians in Alaska, have been reported washed u…
It’s rare to see humpbacks in Turnagain Arm, known for its swift tides and shallow waters.
The Yukon Salmon Sub-Committee is recommending the complete cessation of fishing for Chinook salmon this year on the Yukon River.
Mills in the heart of Canada's timber industry have fallen quieter this winter as wildfires and infestations made worse by climate change have made vast tracts of once valuable forest into barren stands of dead trees.
NOAA is monitoring significant numbers of gray whale deaths this spring along the Pacific coast.
Blooms are often associated with low dissolved oxygen events and warm ocean water temperatures and weather changes – all of which we are, or have been, experiencing," said Kiemele. Farm owner Cermaq says it has deployed fish protection countermeasures that have already caused conditions to improve.
Fishing businesses in Mat-Su warned that the rules could hurt the state's tourism economy.
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