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Beached whale dies in Haiti after fishermen wound it: Conservation group

PORT-AU-PRINCE — A Haitian conservation group said an adult humpback whale has died in shallow waters off the country’s north coast after it is being wounded by fishermen.

PORT-AU-PRINCE — A Haitian conservation group said an adult humpback whale has died in shallow waters off the country’s north coast after it is being wounded by fishermen.

The stressed whale had been repeatedly slashed by fishermen in Fort Liberte Bay, said Mr Jean Wiener, head of the Foundation for the Protection of Marine Biodiversity, yesterday (Jan 13). It later got stranded off a beach in Caracol after getting tangled up in net.

Conservationists, local officials and some fishermen then tried to prevent the death of the beached whale, but efforts to get it into the deeper waters failed.

Mr Wiener’s group will be burying the carcass. He hopes to retrieve the bones in a year for educational purposes. He says they are trying to sensitise people living along the coast “so they don’t have to hunt these beautiful creatures”. AP

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