{"id":176521,"date":"2026-03-26T21:40:48","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T21:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/176521\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T21:40:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T21:40:48","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-beached-whale-washes-ashore-at-rockaway-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/176521\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Beached whale washes ashore at Rockaway Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A beached whale washed ashore at Rockaway Beach Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>An aerial survey team notified the Atlantic Marine Conservation Society about a whale carcass floating offshore approximately 15 miles south of Long Island on March 24.<\/p>\n<p>They confirmed that the floating whale carcass was the same beached whale at Rockaway Beach.<\/p>\n<p>They identified the whale as a Sei whale, approximately 40 feet long.<\/p>\n<p>\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/656044576_1394919449341304_6831637995426587276_n.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: NYSDEC<\/p>\n<p>AMSEAS is working with local authorities to conduct a necropsy examination.<\/p>\n<p>To report strandings of marine mammals and sea turtles in New York, they say to call the New York State Marine Mammal and Sea Turtle Stranding Hotline at 631-369-9829.<\/p>\n<p>The public can also report sightings of healthy marine mammals and sea turtles in and around New York to sightings@amseas.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A beached whale washed ashore at Rockaway Beach Monday morning. An aerial survey team notified the Atlantic Marine&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[71657,98,100,99,9,24,63,71656,294,71655,8951],"class_list":["post-176521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-beached-whale","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-rockaway","tag-rockaway-beach","tag-whale","tag-whales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}