Between Calais and Marck, a whale 9.53 meters long ran aground on Fort Vert beach. An exceptional phenomenon.
A humpback whale almost ten meters long washed ashore and was found dead Thursday morning on a beach in Pas-de-Calais, between Calais and Marck, AFP noted, an “exceptional” phenomenon according to a specialist . “This 9.53 meter whale was stranded on Fort Vert beach. It is a female. It is an exceptional phenomenon for the region,” Jacky Karpouzopoulos, president of the association, told AFP. the Mammalogical Coordination of northern France (CMNF) and “responsible for strandings” in Nord-Pas-de-Calais, confirming information from France 3 Hauts-de-France.
This whale, which weighs “between 20 and 25 tonnes”, must be taken out of the “swing zone” of the tides on Thursday afternoon “so that it does not go back to the sea”. It is a dead body and “it can be dangerous for navigation”, added Mr. Karpouzopoulos. With the help of “heavy machinery”, we will “pull her up the beach as high as possible” and on Friday “we will do her autopsy”. “We will open the animal on the beach, cut it up and the whale will go to be rendered,” he said. “This type of stranding is quite rare on our coast, the passage of cetacean migrations taking place further north of England”, explained to AFP Yoan Demassieux, one of the caretakers of the Protective League of Animals. (LPA) in Calais.
This whale “died only a few hours ago, it is possible that she was surprised by the numerous sandbanks here on the beaches of eastern Calais” and “that she died of suffocation by her own weight “, he says, without ruling out the possibility of a possible illness. In November, a fin whale of 19 meters and about fifteen tons, was stranded in the port of Calais after being injured.
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