Doha: A team from the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change made an urgent intervention following a report of the death of a dolphin at Al Dhakira Beach.
The officials inspected and recorded the biological measurements of the animal, which was 227 cm long and 70 cm high. "It is a large, old male dolphin, a type of dolphin of the Pacific and Indo-Pacific. There are no signs on him that he collided with a ship or that he was stuck in a fishing net, and it turned out that he lost 7 teeth on each side of the jawbone and his body was slender and this indicates that he had died of starvation or old age," said the ministry.
It further added that after completing the necessary measurements, the body was buried and its location recorded so that it could be retrieved in the future.
The Ministry called upon seafarers to cooperate with it quickly to report such cases, to take the necessary measures and follow up on everything related to the marine environment in the State of Qatar.