{"id":186944,"date":"2026-02-21T01:56:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T01:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/186944\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T01:56:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T01:56:15","slug":"dead-50-foot-whale-washes-ashore-at-jersey-shore-beach-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/186944\/","title":{"rendered":"Dead 50-foot whale washes ashore at Jersey Shore beach, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"

A dead 50-foot fin whale washed ashore Friday on an Ocean County beach, according to the Marine Mammal Stranding Center.<\/p>\n

The mammal was found in the surf in Barnegat Light at the northern tip of Long Beach Island.<\/p>\n

Officials from the center said they were on scene until sunset Friday to come up with a plan to remove it and perform a necropsy on the whale ahead of Sunday\u2019s forecasted coastal storm<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The necropsy will help determine how the mammal died.<\/p>\n

No other details were shared by the center on Friday night.<\/p>\n

Whale deaths and strandings are not new for Long Beach Island.<\/p>\n

In October, a humpback whale was found stranded on a sandbar <\/a>off the southern tip of Beach Haven. The young, 29-foot whale, died two days later.<\/p>\n

In 2024, a dead humpback whale washed up in Long Beach Township<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That year, nine whale strandings were reported in New Jersey; there were four reported last year, according to stranding center statistics<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A dead 50-foot fin whale washed ashore Friday on an Ocean County beach, according to the Marine Mammal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-186944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}