• Email Us: [email protected]
  • Contact Us: +1 718 874 1545
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Medical Market Report

  • Home
  • All Reports
  • About Us
  • Contact Us

NOAA Is Offering $20,000 For Info On Who Shot This Dolphin

April 27, 2024 by Deborah Bloomfield

For reasons that are unclear, a dolphin has been shot dead at a beach in Cameron Parish, Louisiana. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Office of Law Enforcement is now on the hunt for the perpetrator and is offering a reward of up to $20,000 for information leading to a criminal conviction.

The juvenile bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) was found dead on March 13 along the shores of West Mae’s Beach a few miles from the Sabine Pass Lighthouse, according to an NOAA statement.

Advertisement

Scientists carried out a necropsy of the animal, revealing several bullets lodged in its brain, spinal cord, and heart. By no surprise, it appears the dolphin died as a result of this trauma. 

Harassing, harming, killing, or even feeding wild dolphins is prohibited under the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972. Breaking this law can land people with up to $100,000 in fines and up to one year in jail per violation.

Anyone with information about the incident on West Mae’s Beach is urged to call the NOAA Enforcement Hotline at (800) 853-1964. If the information leads to a criminal conviction or the assessment of a civil penalty, members of the public could receive a reward of up to $20,000. Tips can be left anonymously, although you’ll need to provide your identity if you wish to claim the reward. 

A map showing Approximate location of dolphin carcass, Cameron Parish, Louisiana.

Approximate location of the dolphin carcass, Cameron Parish, Louisiana.

Image credit: NOAA Fisheries

Sadly, this isn’t the first time such an incident has occurred in the US. In 2020, two dolphins washed up in Florida with gruesome injuries caused by a gun or a sharp weapon. The NOAA said at the time that at least 29 other dolphins had washed up in the Southeast US since 2002, often with unusual injuries that appear to be inflicted with a weapon. 

Advertisement

The reason for the attacks was unclear. However, some speculated the rising number of malicious attacks was linked to people attempting to feed the dolphins. This leads to dolphins associating people or boats with a meal, raising the chances of an unfortunate run-in with humans, whether that’s a boat collision or an act of violence. Dolphins are also known to steal bycatch, leading to tensions with fishermen that can erupt into violence.

Globally, common bottlenose dolphins are designated as “Least Concern” on the IUCN Red List, meaning there is currently little risk they will fall into extinction. However, they do face a myriad of threats, including entanglement in fishing nets, ocean pollution, habitat loss, and climate change.

Deborah Bloomfield
Deborah Bloomfield

Related posts:

  1. China’s Aug export growth unexpectedly picks up speed, imports solidly up
  2. Bolivian president calls for global debt relief for poor countries
  3. Five Seasons Ventures pulls in €180M fund to tackle human health and climate via FoodTech
  4. Humanity’s Journey To A Metal-Rich Asteroid Launches Today. Here’s How To Watch

Source Link: NOAA Is Offering $20,000 For Info On Who Shot This Dolphin

Filed Under: News

Primary Sidebar

  • 1-Year-Old Orca Takes Out A Big Fat Seal In This Award-Winning – And Extremely Badass – Photo
  • Saturn And Neptune Will Reach Their Brightest In Days – And Look For Saturn’s Temporary Beauty Spot
  • Reindeer Bring A Gift Greater Than Any Of Santa’s – Hope Of A Stable Climate
  • If Deep-Sea Pressure Can Crush A Human Body, How Do Deep-Sea Creatures Not Implode?
  • Meet Ned: The Lonely Lefty Snail Looking For Love
  • “America Will Lead The Next Giant Leap”: NASA Announces New Milestone In Hunt For Exoplanets
  • What Did Neanderthals Sound Like?
  • One Star System Could Soon Dazzle Us Twice With Nova And Supernova Explosions
  • Unethical Experiments: When Scientists Really Should Have Stopped What They Were Doing Immediately
  • The First Humans Were Hunted By Leopards And Weren’t The Apex Predators We Thought They Were
  • Earth’s Passage Through The Galaxy Might Be Written In Its Rocks
  • What Is An Einstein Cross – And Why Is The Latest One Such A Unique Find?
  • If We Found Life On Mars, What Would That Mean For The Fermi Paradox And The Great Filter?
  • The Longest Living Mammals Are Giants That Live Up To 200 Years In The Icy Arctic
  • Entirely New Virus Detected In Bat Urine, And It’s Only The 4th Of Its Kind Ever Isolated
  • The First Ever Full Asteroid History: From Its Doomed Discovery To Collecting Its Meteorites
  • World’s Oldest Pachycephalosaur Fossil Pushes Back These Dinosaurs’ Emergence By 15 Million Years
  • The Hole In The Ozone Layer Is Healing And On Track For Full Recovery In The 21st Century, Thanks To Science
  • First Sweet Potato Genome Reveals They’re Hybrids With A Puzzling Past And 6 Sets Of Chromosomes
  • Why Is The Top Of Canada So Sparsely Populated? Meet The “Canadian Shield”
  • Business
  • Health
  • News
  • Science
  • Technology
  • +1 718 874 1545
  • +91 78878 22626
  • [email protected]
Office Address
Prudour Pvt. Ltd. 420 Lexington Avenue Suite 300 New York City, NY 10170.

Powered by Prudour Network

Copyrights © 2025 · Medical Market Report. All Rights Reserved.

Go to mobile version