A new fin whale was stranded this Saturday on a beach in Tréguennec (Finistère).
The marine mammal is 16 m long and the reasons for the stranding are not yet known, quickly indicated the prefecture of Finistère.
“State services are going there for analysis purposes,” she added, adding that the solution to evacuate the whale from Kermabec beach had not yet been determined.
The cetacean from Tréguennec is the second to run aground in Finistère in eight days, after that of the island of Sein on September 2.
The carcass of the first whale was still resting on Saturday afternoon on a rocky plateau on the islet of Kélaourou, south-east of the island of Sein, and has not yet been able to be evacuated.
A whale population that has doubled in fifty years
She could be towed during the high tides expected from Saturday to Monday.
However, no maneuver was planned for Saturday at the start of the afternoon, according to the prefecture.
Once considered "endangered", the fin whale has seen its global population nearly double since the 1970s, thanks to international whaling bans, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
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