NEAH BAY — The rotting carcass of a 20-ton sei whale was safely towed to Neah Bay overnight Sunday.
There, the 45-foot mammal will undergo a necropsy, a National Marine Fisheries Services official said Sunday.
The whale carcass washed up a week ago in a Freshwater Bay waterfront neighborhood just west of Port Angeles.
“The final disposition of the mammal has not been determined yet,” said biologist Pat Gearin, who works at a field station in Neah Bay and helped coordinate the effort to remove the whale from Freshwater Bay, where its odor plagued beachfront neighbors.
Gearin said once samples are taken from the whale carcass, its bones and skull will be collected for scientific study and possibly future display.
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The rest of the story appears in the Monday Peninsula Daily News.