{"id":52347,"date":"2023-10-20T10:10:43","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T08:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sea-help.eu\/news-general\/minke-whale-recovery-flensburger-foerde\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T10:10:43","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T08:10:43","slug":"minke-whale-recovery-flensburger-foerde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sea-help.eu\/en\/news-general\/minke-whale-recovery-flensburger-foerde\/","title":{"rendered":"Flensburg Fjord: <\/span><\/span>SeaHelp discovers minke whale and provides for salvage"},"content":{"rendered":"

On October 14, Ren\u00e9 Haar, skipper of a SeaHelp response boat \/ Baltic Sea in the Flensburg F\u00f6rde discovered a “large marine mammal”. The then surprisingly turned out to be a 400-kilogram minke whale.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The minke whale, minke whale or minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata), in demarcation to the southern minke whale (B. bonaerensis) also called northern minke whale, a species of rorquals, is normally found in all major oceans, most often encountered in the North Atlantic and North Pacific.<\/p>\n

This flipper had apparently blurred: SeaHelp operations manager \/ Baltic Sea Ren\u00e9 Haar<\/a> spotted it last Saturday morning at the height of the sewage treatment plant at Kielseng in the Flensburg F\u00f6rde, as already reported by foerde.news on Oct. 14.<\/p>\n

Minke whales are considered fast swimmers; unlike other rorquals, they are very curious and also approach ships<\/h2>\n

Minke whales are considered fast swimmers; like dolphins, they can jump completely out of the water and, unlike other rorquals, they are curious and approach ships. This could have been the F\u00f6rde whale’s undoing, because when Ren\u00e9 Haar approached the animal with his rescue boat, he found that the marine mammal had died.<\/p>\n

“On Saturday morning around 8 o’clock called me the “seal hunter”<\/em> responsible for Flensburg, and reported, “that he has a message about a dead whale on the shore Kielseng in Flensburg”<\/em>, says head of operations Ren\u00e9 Haar. The so-called “seal hunter” is not a hunter in the conventional sense, but rather a water ranger commissioned by the state of Schleswig-Holstein, which cares for the preservation and care of marine mammals.<\/p>\n

The dead marine mammal turned out to be, at first glance, an “approximately 3.5 to 4 meter long minke whale”<\/h2>\n

After a brief joint search, the two actually discovered the animal at the specified location, which at first glance turned out to be an “approximately 3.5 to 4 meter long minke whale”<\/em>that was obviously no longer alive, Haar said.<\/p>\n

While the water ranger had taken care of the further procedure – the decision on what to do with such an animal lies, among others, with the ITAW B\u00fcsum of the University of Hanover – he had already gone to another mission at the association Missionf\u00f6rde, Haar continued.<\/p>\n

“Then came the “go” to tow the animal”,<\/em> says Ren\u00e9 Haar. The small whale was pulled by one of his SeaHelp response boats to the nearest crane at Flensburger Yachtservice, from where it was then transported by truck to B\u00fcsum. Due to the special location situation in Leegerwall of the coast at a stone pier, Haar had sent one of its skippers with a suitable workboat for this task.<\/p>\n

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