© dnaDead dolphins continue to dot Mumbai shores. File photo.
The bizarre spree of dead dolphins washing ashore on Mumbai beaches seems to continue. The latest was a five-feet-long dolphin carcass on Manori beach found on Wednesday, 4 November afternoon.
According to locals, the decomposed body of the marine mammal was spotted on as the tide receded. The carcass, like the earlier ones, was discoloured with bloated internals and fluids spilling from the rostrum (snout of the dolphin).
Fishermen from the area informed BMC officials immediately, who took away the carcass, which was emanating foul stench.
"Dolphins are seen far, in deeper waters, from the Manori coast. It is the first-time around that, a dead dolphin has surfaced here. There were incidents of similar carcasses washed ashore on Versova and Aksa beach," local fisherman Ramdas Agaskar told iamin over phone.