Peninsula: Porpoise deaths increase; some apparently succumbed before Navy sonar testing
Published 12:01 am Friday, May 16, 2003
SEQUIM — A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist said Thursday that four harbor porpoise have been reported dead along east Clallam County shores this month.
Three of the carcasses washed up along Dungeness Spit and a fourth was reported east of Port Angeles, near the Rayonier pulp mill site, said Pam Sanguinetti, a Fish and Wildlife biologist in Sequim.
Two of the carcasses — one from Dungeness Spit and the one found near Olympic Discovery Trail east of Port Angeles — will have necropsies performed on them to determine a cause of death, she said, noting one of the carcasses included a fetus.
The carcasses have been sent to the Whale Museum in Friday Harbor for analysis.
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