Jeju Coast Guard Finds Stranded Finless Porpoise Carcass... No Signs of Illegal Capture
[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters (Jeju) Reporter Hwang Jeong-pil] The Jeju Coast Guard discovered the carcass of a marine protected species, the narrow-ridged finless porpoise, on a coast in Jeju Island, but found no signs of illegal capture and handed it over to the local government.
According to the Jeju Coast Guard on the 1st, at 12:43 PM on the 30th of last month, they received a report from a tourist about a dolphin carcass on the coast in front of the Starbucks in Yongdam-dong, Jeju City.
The Jeju Coast Guard arrived at the scene at 12:56 PM and, after consulting with the Whale Research Center, identified it as a female narrow-ridged finless porpoise estimated to have died within a week, measuring 127 cm in length, 50 cm in width, and weighing about 30 kg.
The Jeju Coast Guard noted that the carcass showed little decomposition and no signs of illegal capture, and handed it over to the Yongdam 2-dong Community Center, the local government office.
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The narrow-ridged finless porpoise mainly inhabits the southern and western coasts of Korea and is a protected species under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) due to its declining population.
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