By Outer Banks Voice on October 30, 2024
This was posted by the NC Aquarium on Roanoke Island in the early afternoon of Wednesday, Oct. 30.
Have you seen this manatee? The OBX Marine Mammal Stranding Network is searching for a manatee that is injured. It has healing propeller wounds near its tail and was last seen near Kitty Hawk Bay yesterday, October 29.
How can you help? If you see this manatee or any stranded marine mammal, immediately report the sighting to the Marine Mammal Stranding Hotline at 252-564-2733 with an exact location. Thank you!
The OBX Marine Mammal Stranding Network is made up of local, state and federal conservation leaders, including Jennette’s Pier, and is dedicated to responding to stranded, entangled or injured marine mammals from the Virginia-North Carolina state line to Ocracoke, covering more than 130 miles of coastline and receiving 60 percent of North Carolina’s strandings annually. To read more about this and other conservation efforts from NC Aquariums, please visit: https://www.ncaquariums.com/conservation
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Greg
On a hopeful note this Manatee should be eating well as there is a bumper crop of Widgeon Grass along the Kitty Hawk shoreline.