The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries Southeast division reported a 47-foot male sperm whale stranded off the Gulf of Mexico in the Florida Keys.
Biologists found a mass of fishing line, pieces of net and plastic bags in its stomach. A tweet by NOAA Fish Southeast revealed the whale was emaciated and the debris probably didn’t allow the whale to eat properly.
Biologists say marine debris likely led to whale’s stranding off the FL Keys. The 47ft male sperm whale had a mass of intertwined line, pieces of net & plastic bags in its stomach. This debris likely did not allow the whale to eat properly, leading to its stranding.
Pic:@MyFWCpic.twitter.com/ICxWQPxmCH— NOAA Fish Southeast (@NOAAFish_SERO)May 12, 2022
According to theMiami Heraldthe whale weighed 40 tons and beached itself off Mud…
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Exposing the Big Game 
Why is it so difficult to properly dispose of trash? I can’t figure it out. It also should be burned as fuel. Today it is a much cleaner resource, and plastics are a source of petroleum. And to me, it is just as dangerous if not more so as a source of methane in a landfill or in our oceans, as it would be an air pollutant.
Talk about a never-ending, inexhaustible resource!
^^or ‘Today it is a much cleaner process’, I should have written.