Overview

• Fishermen in O Morrazo located a 5–6 meter Balaenoptera acutorostrata floating in the Ría de Aldán on September 24.
• The whale later grounded on the rocks at Bon de Abaixo in Bueu, complicating efforts to tow it to the port of Aldán.
• CEMMA alerted Salvamento Marítimo and the Galicia coastguard because the damaged carcass posed a navigation hazard.
• The Pontevedra territorial office said Bueu must move the animal to an accessible point so Gesuga can recover it, noting its intervention threshold is specimens over three meters.
• After the necropsy to determine cause of death, the Xunta’s environmental quality team is expected to handle disposal by incineration.