Officials: Dolphin Spotted Along South River Has Died
OLD BRIDGE, N.J. (CBSNewYork/AP) -- A dolphin recently spotted in a central New Jersey waterway has died.
The dolphin died despite the efforts of marine officials who sought to coax it away from the area.
The roughly 400-pound dolphin was first observed in the South River earlier this week.
Teams with the Brigantine-based Marine Mammal Stranding Center initially tried using a boat to coax it toward the Raritan Bay, and the dolphin appeared to finally be doing that Saturday morning. But volunteers who were following the dolphin from a distance soon saw it swim into a shallow area.
They alerted center staffers, who saw the dolphin was having seizures and struggling to breathe. They took it out of the water, and it soon died.
A necropsy will be conducted to determine what caused the dolphin's death.
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