Posted on 09/22/2022 3:36:52 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Carcasses can explode if left to decompose on land and should be towed back to sea ‘where they belong’, experts say
Two mass strandings in Tasmanian waters in a week has left about 200 pilot whales and 14 sperm whales dead.
On Monday, 14 juvenile sperm whales died and washed ashore at King Island, in Bass Strait. Approximately 230 pilot whales became stranded on Ocean Beach, west of the Tasmanian town of Strahan on Wednesday.
In 2017, a New South Wales council buried an 18-tonne humpback whale at Port Macquarie’s Nobbys beach and then excavated it a week later, due to community concerns about heightened shark activity.
“If you’ve got a connection to the water table there’s a chance that it does leak out into the ocean – it could potentially attract predators but … that’s not fully proven,” Meynecke said.
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Same here. I was in high school in Portland at the time. If I’d known they were going to blow up a whale, there’s nothing on earth that could have kept my brothers and me away.
lol!
Why not harvest them, if discovered soon enough?
When I beas a preteen I used to sing that song till my clearly agitated Mom threatened to beat me with a broom handle and leave me”in the middle of the road”
She was serious and I shut my mouth!
Harvest them? You’re ahead of your time. With all the energy/generation/pipelines/drilling/etc. cutbacks we’ll be back to burning whale oil lamps soon enough. Stock up on wicks.
“Why not harvest them, if discovered soon enough?”
Or sink the leviathan and harvest the crabs and lobsters there for the carnival.
A lot of folks eat crab and lobster.
They use to harvest beached whales and porpoise for their oil.
Government, in it’s collective stupidity, outlawed that.
DYN-O-MITE!
That new one was pretty cool!
I can't even begin to imagine the stench.
there is your answer
bring in the inuits
they know what to do
Jimmie Walker, AKA DYN-O-MITE! had a radio show on WLS talk radio back in the 1990s(?).
An interesting guy and his views were not what I expected.
IIRC libertarian/Conservative.
dirty hippie chicks are wild in the sack
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