Another marine mammal stranded in Bangui windmills

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By Leilanie G. Adriano

Staff Reporter

Bangui, Ilocos Norte—Another endangered marine mammal was stranded near the Bangui windmills at Brgy. Suyo in this town.

Ten-year old Christopher Alos, a Grade IV pupil of Suyo Elementary School in Bangui, Ilocos Norte was playing near the wind power farm along the stretch of Bangui bay when they a spotted what seemed like a “balyena” or whale a few meters from the shoreline.

According to Alos, the mammal has a wound in the head and appears to be weak.

But when several people went near the endangered animal, witnesses said “it went back to the wild.”

As of this posting, trained responders of the Philippine Marine Mammal Stranding Network-Ilocos Norte chapter in coordination with local officials and nearby residents in the area are monitoring the Bangui Bay as the spotted whale may return.

Earlier, two spinner dolphins were again stranded in the coastal barangay of Saud in Badoc, Ilocos Norte. One of them was successfully released back to the wild after regaining his strength while the other one died shortly after being found by responders.

The Provincial Agriculture Office-Fisheries Division of Ilocos Norte said rampant illegal fishing has been eyed as one of the reasons of the increasing number of stranded marine mammals along the Ilocos Norte coastline.

“Since January, there are now eight marine mammal strandings that has been recorded in Ilocos Norte, which is very alarming,” said fishery regulatory coordinator Arthur Valente of the Office of the Provincial Agriculture (OPAG).

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