A popular beach in Perth\u2019s northern suburbs has been closed after a whale carcass was sighted on Sunday morning, triggering a shark alert for the area.<\/p>\n
The whale carcass was reported by Surf Life Saving WA at 7.10am, and as a result, the City of Joondalup promptly closed the beach for the safety of beachgoers.<\/p>\n
Authorities issued an update at 10.40am advising the public that the carcass had been removed.<\/p>\n
Beaches remain closed in the Sorrento Beach area.<\/p>\n
A shark advice alert is still in place as it\u2019s \u201cpossible the carcass will act as an attractant that could lead to sharks coming in close to the shore\u201d.<\/p>\n
Officers from the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development are currently monitoring the situation and providing advice to relevant authorities.<\/p>\n
It comes after a juvenile whale carcass washed ashore at Dutch Inn Beach, just south of Cottesloe Beach, about 6.15am on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Town of Cottesloe rangers and a contractor removed the carcass with a single scoop excavator at 12.15pm as dozens of locals watched on.<\/p>\n
It was taken to the Red Hill Waste Management Facility.<\/p>\n
It marked the second time in three weeks whale remains ended up on Perth\u2019s coastline, after a 31-tonne humpback whale drew thousands of onlookers and huge great white sharks to South City Beach last month.<\/p>\n
The City Beach whale was also disposed of at Red Hill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A popular beach in Perth\u2019s northern suburbs has been closed after a whale carcass was sighted on Sunday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":939988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[64,63,46,128,45,338],"class_list":["post-939987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-perth","tag-science","tag-wa-news","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939987","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=939987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/939988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}