Carcass of finless porpoise found on Prachuap Khiri Khan beach

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Carcass of finless porpoise found on Prachuap Khiri Khan beach

By The Nation

 

 

The decomposed carcass of finless porpoise was found on Pran Buri beach in Prachuap Khiri Khan early on Thursday.
 

Jua Kaeyai, chairman of the local fishing club of the Pran Buri River Mount community, alerted officials at the Central Coast of the Gulf of Thailand Marine Resource Research Centre when the carcass was found.

 

Jua said tourists spotted the carcass at 1.30am in front of the Prince Chumphon Shrine.

 

Officials from the marine resource research centre said the porpoise was a female and about five years old. It was 1.15-metres long and weighed about 15 kilograms.

 

The porpoise had no signs of being injured.

 

Officials could not determine the cause of the death as the carcass was decomposed.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30364498

 

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[KMartinHandyman]

In any other waters it would be poaching for fins. Here it’s obviously suicide.

[hotchilli]

20 hours ago, webfact said:

Officials could not determine the cause of the death as the carcass was decomposed.

NO FINS !! 

Cannot swim therefore cannot rise to the surface to breathe ?

Just an idea...

[briansbiology]

eating the fins serves no porpoise. if they couldnt see any damage on one side why didnt they flipper over?

instead they just stand around blubbering...