beached pilot whale saleens

[loxia]

went out to saleens this morning to fish and came across this whale it was still breathing but died within the hour.it was 16 feet long and id say at a ton weight.

[gunnerska]

such a shame for such a truly beautiful creature

[kstaff]

That's an impressive yet very sad sight!! Just goes to show what comes in that channel down there though!! Any signs of marks on him like cuts or wounds etc?

Anyone notify the IWDG?


Cheers

[loxia]

i rang the iwdg to report it and they said nothing could be done that a healthy whale would not get beached so to let nature take its course.it had a few cuts and scrapes but nothing serious.i was with 2 french lads and one of them said it looked like its swim bladder was in its mouth and maybe it was dragged up from the deep out at sea and i said this to the iwdg and they told me whales dont have a swim bladder so that was that theory out the window?we fished for 6 hours in the boat lures and live sandeel 1 small bass 2lb on a lure the water was very dirty it was hard work.

[nicefish]

What a sad sight ,fair play to ye for making the phone call.

[cortaz]

sad sight indeed , shame to see it go to waste .... , is it still there ?,wonder what they taste like anyone borrow me a chainsaw

[rustyhookthomas]

[quote="loxia"]i rang the iwdg to report it and they said nothing could be done that a healthy whale would not get beached so to let nature take its course.

i wonder why the seal crew don't do the same?
can you imagine something like that befriending an angler in bulloch harbour after being hand-fed for months!
maybe it chased fish(bass?) too close to shore due to lack of mackerel on the dropping tide???
too many ?????????? to answer.
even Mr. Atenborough filmed stuff and let nature take it's course when he could have changed things, ,nature happens!

unless it got a smack of a boat!

[BASS POINT]

When a Whale gets in to the back strand they get trapped on sand banks with the tide flowing out so fast it has happened before to much larger whales the last one was so large Waterford co. co. had to dig a hole on the beach with two JCB,S to put it in.

http://rinnashark.forumakers.com/conser ... 1.htm#1989

[twinkle]

i wonder do pilot whales eat seals maybe thats why they dident help. such a waste of a beautiful creature they recon the
toxins in the oceans are messing up there navagation large amounts of mercury and other posins have been found in others washed up on beaches world wide there was a pod of about 30 swam up the thames think it was last year they spent days trying to refloat them i think some of them died smashing photo you should have stood beside it with your rod and put it in the shore reports after all you had the pictures as proof lol

[The Austrian]

...you should have stood beside it with your rod and put it in the shore reports after all you had the pictures as proof lol

Guess this could have got you in trouble with the The Irish Whale and Dolphin Group because all cetaceans (whales, dolphins and porpoise) are protected species in Irish waters.

[eric]

dont let it go to waste get down and fill your tilley lamp

[loxia]

i sent the pics to the iwdg and they sent me an email back saying its a long finned pilot whale and despite its name its the second largest member of the dolphin family.

[colin c]

i wonder do pilot whales eat seals maybe thats why they dident help. such a waste of a beautiful creature they recon the
toxins in the oceans are messing up there navagation large amounts of mercury and other posins have been found in others washed up on beaches world wide there was a pod of about 30 swam up the thames think it was last year they spent days trying to refloat them i think some of them died smashing photo you should have stood beside it with your rod and put it in the shore reports after all you had the pictures as proof lol

Na they dont eat seals.

Heres some info

http://iwdg.ie/species_profiles.asp?speciesID=2119

[KERRY1]

That is so sad to see such a brilliant creature lying dead like that on one of our beaches
I agree with Colin (now there's a shock ) From what I know about them, they don't eat seals.