BANGOR DAILY NEWS • August 11, 2023
Three minke whales have been found dead in Maine waters over a six-day period in what marine researchers call an unusual spate of deaths. Marine mammal researchers from Allied Whale at the College of the Atlantic, which tracks whale strandings and deaths in Maine, responded to the three reports of carcasses between July 30 and Aug. 4. That’s more than they’d typically expect in an entire summer, said Rosemary Seton, Allied Whale’s mammal stranding coordinator. The most recent minke whale carcass washed ashore on Tuesday on Flye Point in Brooklin in Hancock County. The whale likely died from being hit by a boat.