Marine stranding experts are working to remove a dead whale found floating in Newark Bay, and officials now say the animal is about 50 feet long and appears to be either a Fin or Sei whale.
The Marine Mammal Stranding Center said it received a report on April 9 of a dead whale in Newark Bay. The US Army Corps of Engineers then helped secure the whale to prevent it from becoming a navigational hazard and moved it to a staging location in New York Harbor while a response plan is finalized, the Stranding Center said in a social media post.
On Friday morning, Marine Mammal Stranding Center staff boarded a vessel with assistance from the Army Corps of Engineers to photograph the whale and collect initial tissue samples…