Fishing nets, plastic bags, hagfish traps, a light protector, and some fishing line. That’s what was found in the stomach of a large sperm whale that washed ashore in Hawaii.
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00:00All of this plastic was found in the stomach of a beached whale.
00:05The 56-foot sperm whale washed up on Hawaii's shore on January 27th
00:09and was examined by researchers from the University of Hawaii Health and Stranding Lab,
00:13who found fishnets, plastic bags, hagfish traps, a light protector, and some fishing line.
00:19We were really surprised and saddened to find this volume of material.
00:23We don't know if it was ingested over time or if it was ingested in one sort of fatal swoop.
00:30But we do think it's likely that it contributed to the death of the whale.
00:33Male sperm whales travel over thousands of miles,
00:35so it's impossible to tell where exactly the materials came from.