The 19-meter, fifteen-ton whale stranded in the port of Calais (Pas-de-Calais) was towed on Monday and will be autopsied on Tuesday, AFP journalists noted.
This cetacean, which was sick, had entered the port of Calais alive on Saturday, "seeing that in front of it were rocks, it turned and it crashed under its own weight," told AFP Jacky Karpouzopoulos, president of the mammalogical coordination of northern France.
Early Monday afternoon, thanks to high tide, the fin whale was landed and brought by a powerful harbor tug onto a landing ramp in another basin of the commercial port of Calais.
The whale, a female in her thirties, was entrusted for an autopsy to scientists from the mammalogical coordination of northern France and to a veterinary professor at the University of Liège.
"We are realizing that there are more and more large cetaceans" like this one "which are stranded".
All these animals "are extremely thin, which means that they do not eat enough, so there is already a problem of resources", he also affirmed, being alarmed by "the state of the sea. Which continues to "deteriorate".
