{"id":297758,"date":"2025-11-20T20:04:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T20:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/297758\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T20:04:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T20:04:14","slug":"euthanized-humpback-whale-removed-from-oregon-coast-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/297758\/","title":{"rendered":"Euthanized humpback whale removed from Oregon Coast beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">A young humpback whale that was euthanized on Monday has been removed from the Oregon beach where it died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">Scientists, veterinary students and members of the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians worked together to disassemble the whale Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/2NFBXFIPOBEAZMTOXAC3FYPRT4.jpg\" alt=\"A team of workers flip over the beached whale at San Marine State Park near Yachats, Ore. on Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025. Scientists, veterinary students and members of the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians worked together to disassemble the whale, which was euthanized on Monday.\" class=\"width_full\" style=\"aspect-ratio:5059 \/ 3373;width:100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A team of workers flip over the beached whale at San Marine State Park near Yachats, Ore. on Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025. Scientists, veterinary students and members of the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians worked together to disassemble the whale, which was euthanized on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__image-by color_dgray f_s_xxs m-none\">Saskia Hatvany \/ OPB<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">Tribal members performed ceremonies for the whale, and collected some of its remains for cultural use.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">The whale was found beached north of Yachats on Saturday. Dozens of people flocked to the coast in an attempt to rescue it, including trained responders from Portland and Seattle. But even with the help of a rope-and-pully system used at high tide, they were unable to free the 28-foot-long, 9-ton mammal. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">Jim Rice, the program director of Oregon State University\u2019s Oregon Marine Mammal Stranding Network, said the animal was suffering and, with rough seas offshore, had little chance of surviving when officials decided to euthanize it. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">\u201cIt was a very difficult decision,\u201d Rice said<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">Scientists will examine samples to better understand why the 2-year-old animal beached itself north of Yachats. They said it was tangled in fishing gear \u2013 which is a persistent threat to whales and dolphins around the globe. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">NOAA Fisheries officials say the gear was left over from the 2023-2024 commercial Dungeness crab season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A young humpback whale that was euthanized on Monday has been removed from the Oregon beach where it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[64,63,170497,128,338],"class_list":{"0":"post-297758","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-oregon-coast-whales-wildlife","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}