VIDEO. A whale measuring around ten meters stranded on a beach in the English Channel

It is not uncommon to see Marine mammals of an imposing size wash up on the French coast.

In the Manche department, a Mesoplodon – a whale called “rare” – had already found itself on the shore of Genêts, in October 2016.

About ten meters

This Tuesday June 18, 2024to the Pointe d’Agon in front of the lighthouse, it was a whale about ten meters long which mobilized the mayor from the commune of Agon-Coutainville, Christian Dutertre: “It’s our country guard who came this morning, after being informed.

Discovered by a walker who published a video on social networks Sunday June 16,animal is “advanced decomposition», Says Olivier Oettly, agent of the French Office for Biodiversity (OFB).

The latter made the usual findings for this type of stranding, with feedback to the National Stranding Network (RNE), provided by the Pelagis Observatory . “There were no samples taken, given the very advanced stage of decomposition. »

The evacuation of a Marine Mammalis not always easy. The task sometimes falls to the community or to the Departmental Directorate for Population Protection (DDPP) if a “ health risk is proven,” specifies Guillaume Binet, head of the departmental service of the OFB de la Manche.

“In this case,exemptions must also be taken to go onto the foreshore. »

An evacuation to the sea

For this whale, the OFB has made a decision regarding its future. “It will naturally leave with the sea,” reports the city councilor, Christian Dutertre.

Currently 51, thetidal coefficientwill grow in the coming days and thus allow the currents to carry the animal out to sea, as it came.

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