A lifeless whale discovered within the St. Lawrence River northeast of Montreal is probably going the second of two minke whales noticed within the space earlier this month.
A Quebec marine mammal analysis group says the whale was recovered Friday from the waters close to Contrecoeur, Que., about 50 kilometres downstream from Montreal.
A publish to the Quebec Marine Mammal Emergency Response Community's web site says the male whale, about 3.8 metres lengthy and believed to be one to 2 years previous, was transported to St-Hyacinthe for a necropsy.
The group says the state of the animal suggests it had died between a number of days and per week earlier and its pores and skin was lined with a fungi much like that discovered on a humpback whale who died after a keep in Montreal in 2020, indicative of a protracted keep in freshwater.
Minke whales are frequent in Quebec however do not typically enterprise west of the saltwater St. Lawrence estuary round Tadoussac, Que.
A last necropsy report isn't anticipated for a number of months, however the group says there was no apparent reason behind loss of life or indicators of trauma noticed, though an absence of meals within the abdomen suggests it had not fed not too long ago.
It says there isn't any signal of the opposite minke whale, who was first noticed round Might 8 within the Montreal space earlier than each vanished round mid-Might.
-- This report by The Canadian Press was first printed on Might 28, 2022.
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