Wildlife officials on Sunday discovered a dead North Atlantic right whale calf on the beach at Cumberland Island National Seashore, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries Service reported.
It’s the second juvenile right whale to be found dead in Georgia in the last three weeks. A yearling female was reported dead offshore and towed to a Tybee beach for examination in February. Both animals were killed by being struck by a boat or ship.
U.S. Rep. Buddy Carter, who represents the Georgia coast, has worked to stymie additional protections for the whales proposed by federal regulators. He claims that the chance of any single boat hitting a whale is about one in a million, which fails to shed light on the risk to the approximately 360 right whales that remain.
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