A Bottlenose dead dolphin was washed ashore opposite the
Reverse Osmosis in Pembroke on Sunday evening.
The cause of the death is unknown.
People who saw the dead dolphin reported the sighting to the
Police. Local police informed the Nature
Trust’s Marine Rescue Team who went on the site.
A Nature Trust spokesman said that an autopsy on the
dolphin's carcass will shed more light on the causes of the dolphin's death.
The Bottlenose dolphin is a common species in the Mediterranean
sea, although it is dwindling in numbers during the past years. The
common dolphin is one of the most prominent by-catches of both the world-wide
pelagic purse-seine and drift net fisheries. This is due in part to its
abundance and possibly because of a shared feeding ecology with the targets of
those fisheries, large migratory pelagic fish for example tunas.
