Options for disposing of the 50-tonne adult male whale include towing out to sea, burial on spot or burning
Mr Fenton and council engineers are consulting also with the Irish Whale and Dolphin Group, he said.The team are continuing to look at options. However it is likely there will be no decision until Tuesday.
She recalled looking out her window on Saturday morning to see huge waves, and then she spotted one of the waves was, in fact, the whale. Stephanie Levesque, strandings officer with the Irish Whale and Dolphin Group, said samples of blubber, baleen, and other material would hopefully help determine the cause of death. “It will not be possible to do a full postmortem,” she said, because of the expense and also the need to bring heavy machinery, ladders and other equipment to the scene.
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