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DFO Investigating After Teeth Removed From Dead Orca On Vancouver Island

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 07 Dec, 2014 03:41 PM

COURTENAY, B.C. — The Department of Fisheries and Oceans is investigating after someone removed teeth from a dead killer whale on Vancouver Island.

The orca, which has been labelled J-32, was reported floating near Courtenay and Comox on Thursday and a necropsy was performed Saturday.

Paul Cottrell, the Pacific marine mammals co-ordinator for Fisheries and Oceans, says it appears someone used a saw to remove a number of teeth between Friday night and Saturday morning.

Cottrell says it's illegal to possess anything from an endangered or at-risk species, and he says investigators are following up on a number of leads.

The necropsy revealed the whale was pregnant with a full-term fetus, though the cause of death hasn't been determined.

Cottrell says the whale skeleton will eventually be donated to the B.C. Royal Museum.

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