FOR the second time this week, another marine creature was found dead along the coastlines in Davao region.
A female Cuvier Beaked Whale with an estimated size of 18 to 19 feet and estimated age between 30 to 40 years old, was found dead at the coastline of Cagangohan in Panabo City.
Grace Hugo Baguio, who posted the photo at the Public Information and Inquiry Page Davao City Facebook group page, said the fishermen saw the dead whale and brought it to the seashore at around 1 a.m..
Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR)-Davao region director Fatma Idris said, in a text message, that the whale was found stranded at the Panabo City Mariculture Park early dawn, but it was already dead when it reached Cagangohan.
Bfar, however, has yet to conduct necropsy. But Idris said the whale's death is "garbage related.”
A dead Pygmy Sperm Whale found dead by a fisherfolk in the coastal road construction in Matina Aplaya, Davao City on Sunday, July 28.
The list of marine deaths due to garbage ingestion has now reached to six.
D’Bone Collector Museum director Darrell Blatchey, in a previous report, said the recent deaths of marine creatures in the shorelines of the region is "very alarming.”
He also said marine creatures die due plastic wastes ingestion has become normal throughout the years.
Interface Development Interventions, an environmental group, has been lobbying at the City Council for the banning of all single use plastics to help reduce the city's growing garbage pile up.