It comes as ten dead whales have washed up on beaches in New York and New Jersey since Dec. 5.
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A dead humpback whale was seen floating about 4 or 5 miles off the New York-New Jersey coastline Monday, federal officials confirmed. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Monday afternoon that earlier in the day the Atlantic Marine Conservation Society, which responds to marine mammal strandings and rescues in New York, received a report from the United States Coast Guard of “an unidentified whale carcass” just south of the Ambrose Channel.in and out of the Port of New York and New Jersey.
“Both Sector NY and deployed assets to attempt to relocate and further document the animal, and it was determined to be a humpback whale,” Andrea Gomez, a NOAA spokeswoman, said in a statement Monday afternoon.since Dec. 5.“Teams will continue to monitor the situation, but due to human safety concerns with impending weather, a response may not be possible,” Gomez added at about 3 p.m. Monday.Officials from the Atlantic Marine Conservation Society could not immediately be reached Monday.
The cause of death of the whale seen floating near Ambrose Channel on Monday was not released. NOAA officialsas the likely causes for whales continuing wash ashore.a 12-foot infant sperm whale in Keansburg on Dec. 5a juvenile humpback whale on Strathmere Beach on Dec. 10
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