And two.
A new fin whale was stranded on a beach in Tréguennec (Finistère) on Saturday, the second in eight days after that of the island of Sein in early September, noted an AFP photographer.
The marine mammal is 16 m long and the reasons for the stranding are not yet known, said the Finistère prefecture.
“State services are going there for analysis purposes,” said the prefecture, adding that the solution to evacuate the whale from Kermabec beach had not yet been determined.
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The carcass of the first whale was still resting on Saturday afternoon on a rocky plateau on the islet of Kélaourou, south-east of the island of Sein, and has not yet been able to be evacuated.
She could be towed during the high tides expected from Saturday to Monday.
However, no maneuver was planned for Saturday at the start of the afternoon, according to the prefecture.
Once considered "endangered", the fin whale has seen its global population nearly double since the 1970s, thanks to international whaling bans, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
