Second Dead Pilot Whale Washes Ashore in MA

By Tom Richardson on October 13th, 2011

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CapeCodToday: A dead 11’ pilot whale washed ashore at Head of the Meadow Beach in North Truro, Massachusetts, on Tuesday afternoon. Another pilot whale washed ashore and died on Duxbury Beach Monday morning.

A crew of rescuers from the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) were on the beach to examine the whale. IFAW representatives are uncertain if this animal was 1 of 2 others seen with the pilot whale that washed ashore in Duxbury yesterday.

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Tom Richardson is the director and host of New England Boating. Before that he served as the editor of Northeast Boating from 2005 to 2009, and as managing editor of Salt Water Sportsman magazine from 1995 to 2004. He lives, boats and fishes in southeastern Massachusetts with his wife and three kids.