A whale that washed ashore in Hawaii over the weekend likely died in part because it ate large volumes of fishing traps, fishing nets, plastic bags and other marine debris
millions of tons of plasticThe body of the 56-foot long, 120,000-pound animal was first noticed on a reef off Kauai on Friday. High tide brought it ashore on Saturday.
“The presence of undigested fish and squid lends further evidence of a blockage," she said in a news release from the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources. It’s the first known case of a sperm whale in Hawaii waters ingesting discarded fishing gear, West said. Researchers found nothing wrong with other organs they examined. They collected samples to screen for disease and conduct other follow-up tests.
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