{"id":666082,"date":"2026-06-30T13:20:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T13:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/666082\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T13:20:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T13:20:13","slug":"hunt-for-vessel-flying-norwegian-flag-launched-after-pod-of-dolphins-harassed-in-moray-firth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/666082\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunt for vessel flying Norwegian flag launched after pod of dolphins &#8216;harassed&#8217; in Moray Firth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police are searching for a vessel which was flying a Norwegian flag after reports of a pod of dolphins being harassed in the Moray Firth.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred off the coast of Fort George at around 1.30pm on June 15.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives are searching for a small power-driven vessel, which appears to have a dark coloured hull and a light or white coloured cockpit.<\/p>\n<p>The vessel is believed to have been flying the Norwegian flag.<\/p>\n<p>PC MacDonald said \u201cWe are keen to speak to anyone who may have witnessed this while watching the dolphins.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnyone that could identify or further describe the vessel in question should speak to us also. I\u2019d kindly ask anyone with private CCTV which looks over the firth to check it for footage of this vessel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those with information are urged to call 101 or anonymously contact Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111, quoting CR\/0262252\/26.<\/p>\n<p>STV News is now on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Get all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaCESJzKgsNvKKNOYO2r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">      Follow STV News <\/a>Follow STV News on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Scan the QR code on your mobile device for all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/whatsapp-qr.png\" alt=\"WhatsApp channel QR Code\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are searching for a vessel which was flying a Norwegian flag after reports of a pod of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":666083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-666082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}