Whale spotted floating off Seaside Park, NJ beach

🔴 UPDATE: The whale washed onto the beach at L Street in Seaside Park, according to Mayor John Peterson and the Marine Mammal Stranding Center

🔴 The Marine Mammal Stranding Center will perform a necropsy once the whale is taken out of the water

🔴 It has yet to be determined if the whale is the same one found floating near Ambrose Channel, the main shipping channel in and out of the Port of New York and New Jersey

SEASIDE PARK — A whale was spotted floating off an Ocean County beach Wednesday morning.

Clean Ocean Action said it was notified by Seaside Park's mayor John Peterson about the whale just before 11 a.m. They informed the Marine Mammal Stranding Center, which is sending a team to the beach.

The Marine Mammal Stranding Center told New Jersey 101.5 that the whale was spotted floating off the L Street beach in Seaside Park. Drone footage has determined the whale to be a humpback.

It's not clear if the whale is the same one found Monday floating near Ambrose Channel, the main shipping channel in and out of the Port of New York and New Jersey. The Marine Mammal Stranding Center said the U.S. Coast Guard has provided drift analysis to help make a determination.

An 8-foot bottlenose dolphin was found washed up on a beach in Avalon Monday. The Marine Mammal Stranding Center is performing a necropsy to determine a cause of death.

Eleven whales have beached themselves at New Jersey and New York beaches since December.

Dan Alexander is a reporter for New Jersey 101.5. You can reach him at dan.alexander@townsquaremedia.com

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