STRANDED SPINNER DOLPHIN IN ORMOC DIES
TACLOBAN CITY — A spinner dolphin that was found stranded along the waters of Ormoc bay Thursday died a few hours after it was rescued.
It is the second stranded dolphin in Ormoc City to have died in a span of two months. According to a report of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources regional office, first responders made necessary measures to rescue the said marine mammal but succumbed just the same around 8:30 p.m. on the same day. Authorities are still on the process of figuring out the cause of its death. A melon-headed whale has also been stranded in the same bay last 9 August but it died a week after it was rescued.
The melon-headed whale calf with an approximate length of 1.50 meters was found stranded along the shoreline of Sitio Magbangon, Brgy. Tinag-an, Albuera, Leyte.
According to the responders, the said marine mammal was physically unstable and has wounds on its dorsal fin and tail fluke when it was found.
The whale was brought to the Ormoc City Fisheries Office Rehabilitation Facility for proper care and rehabilitation where it died after a week.