(Calais) A whale, a fin whale 19 meters and weighing about 15 tons, ran aground in the port of Calais after being injured, a rare phenomenon on the coast, AFP noted on Sunday.
“It is about a female of about thirty who ran aground on Saturday, she was ill, she returned to the port of Calais still alive, she went too close to the rocks and she failed ”, told AFP Jacky Karpouzopoulos, president of the Mammalogical Coordination of the North of France (CMNF), describing a scene“ violent ”.
Monday afternoon, “we are going to tow it to put it on an area where we will be able, Tuesday morning, to operate its autopsy, then we will cut it up and it will go to the rendering to be cremated”, he said. Explain.