Dolphin found dead on the west coast – Göteborgs-Posten

When Nilla Joan’s son went down on the beach in Mellbystrand she saw something unusual. A striped dolphin had washed ashore.

– I went down to look for it when a neighbor said he thought he had seen a dolphin on beach. I then thought that it surely must be a porpoise. When I saw it I realized that it actually has to be a dolphin, says Nilla Joan’s son to hp.se.

It was in Saturday as she saw and photographed the dead animal. The dolphin was washed up on the beach just north of the Marias camping on Mellbystrand.

For a dolphin was. And such is in Laholmsbukten is unusual, says Kenneth Lundin, who is a marine biologist at the Natural History Museum in Gothenburg.

– It happens a few times a year, over the entire coast. We have seen a slight increase, but do not know if it is due to climate change, he said.

HP sent Nilla Joan’s images to Kennet Lundin for species identification, and it proved to be the species striped dolphin.

– We had a couple stranded at Onsala in February. But it is a very rare find, says Lundin.

– Why it was two striped dolphins in Onsala and now further south, we can not say. But it may have been a little flock, he goes on.

Natural History Museum collects and disseminates information about whales sighted in Swedish waters. Regarding the right common porpoise are routines scoring. But not for the dolphins.

– After these findings of the dolphin we need to discuss and sort out who should do what, says Kenneth Lundin.