NORTH WILDWOOD, NJ (Cape May County)- Troopers from the Marine Services Bureau North Wildwood Station responded to the report of a deceased whale in the Hereford Inlet in North Wildwood Sunday morning.
When troopers arrived, they located the whale under the dock of an abandoned residence in the area of the Grassy Sound Marina, state police said.
Members of the Marine Mammal Stranding Center arrived on scene and determined that the whale should be removed from the area in order to provide for safe vessel traffic, state police said.
According to a post on the Grassy Sound Marina Facebook page, the juvenile humpback whale was around 25 feet long.
The whale was set to be removed by the New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife during Sunday’s high tide, state police said.
To report a stranded mammal, contact the Marine Mammal Stranding Center at 1-609-266-0538.
