Sign up for the Breaking News Australia email<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cIt is possible the carcass will continue to act as an attractant that could lead to sharks coming in close to shore along this stretch of coast,\u201d the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development warned.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople should exercise additional caution.\u201d<\/p>\n
The whale was found on Monday morning. Photograph: Richard Wainwright\/AAP<\/p>\n
The alerts come 10 days after 63-year-old Greg O\u2019Neill was killed in a shark attack while swimming close to shore at Perth\u2019s Sorrento beach, about 12km north of City beach.<\/p>\n
Hundreds of onlookers gathered on Monday to view the whale.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s sad, they\u2019re such a beautiful animal,\u201d a local, David Jones, said. Several dead whales had washed up on the same stretch of coast in the previous decade, he said.<\/p>\n
Many onlookers took selfies in front of the massive carcass, while others held their noses to protect themselves from the stench.<\/p>\n
The silhouettes of sharks could be seen in the waves, swimming up and down the coast.<\/p>\n
Onlookers gathered at City beach in Perth. Photograph: Aaron Bunch\/EPA<\/p>\n
Town of Cambridge mayor, Gary Mack, said it was important members of the public took heed of the warnings.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is not a time for taking risks,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Mack said authorities were assessing the carcass and it was likely to be removed from the beach on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt seems at this stage the plan will be to remove the carcass on the back of a truck and take it to a landfill site,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The other option is to tow it out to sea, but Mack said that may prove difficult.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a bit of surf down there, and it\u2019s rocking back and forth and appears to be wedged on the sandbar,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Multiple sharks have been spotted swimming near a large, smelly whale carcass that has washed ashore at a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":785349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-785348","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\/785348","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=785348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/785349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}