Federal wildlife officials are investigating the death of a whale that was found Sunday night on the bow of a ship docked in the port of Gloucester City, a busy commercial hub on the Delaware River in South Jersey.
The U.S. Coast Guard’s Delaware Bay sector reported the carcass in the Gloucester Marine Terminal around 11:15 p.m. The mammal, measuring between 25 and 30 feet long, was caught on the bow of an unidentified ship, the Marine Mammal Stranding Center said Monday in an Instagram post.
The Brigantine-based wildlife rescue said it appears to be a fin whale, an endangered species that’s known to dwell in waters from New York south to Cape May. The Gloucester Marine Terminal is part of the Port of Philadelphia complex on the east side of the river near the foot of the Walt Whitman Bridge…