By Associated Press - Saturday, May 13, 2017

TACOMA, Wash. (AP) - Officials with the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife say a 50-foot-long dead fin whale floated in Tacoma’s Commencement Bay on Friday.

KIRO-TV (https://kiro.tv/2pHMW41 ) reports that a captain of a cargo ship reported that the endangered whale was impaled on the bow of his ship.

Cargo ships have spear-like protrusions on their bows, which likely impaled the whale and killed it.



Researchers are now making arrangements to tow the whale for a necropsy.

Fin whales are the second largest whales on earth, second only to blue whales. They can live up to 90 years.

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Information from: KIRO-TV, htthttps://www.kirotv.com/index.html

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