Experts are investigating the recent deaths of whales that were found along the Jersey coast. tedgreenbergNBC has the details:
Other dead whales have also turned up in coastal areas of New Jersey and New York. Scientists say there has been an increase in whale sightings closer to the coast over the past several years.
“That also happened to coincide with an increase in the number of animals that we’ve seen washing up on our shores,” DiGiovanni said. Environmental advocates and other groups want to know if offshore work related to planned ocean wind farms has anything to do with the whale deaths. In a letter, they called on President Joe Biden to launch an investigation.
“The key for that investigation are two things,” Cindy Zipf, the executive director of Clean Ocean Action, said. “One is that there’s oversight by an independent team of scientific experts and that number two, it’s public and transparent.”“I mean, there’s sonar. There’s military sonar,” she said. “There’s fishing nets. Plastic pollution. There’s so much going on in the ocean.”
Experts said it could take a couple months to get pathology results on samples taken from the whale that was found over the weekend in Atlantic City. They also stressed that there’s always the possibility that they’ll never get definitive answers.
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