Harbour Porpoise
Last week, on 14th March, George Peace was hauling creels when he saw the freshly-dead carcase of a Porpoise floating close to his boat, the ‘Loch Roag’. The animal was quite small, just over a metre long and weighing only 14 kilograms, and there was no sign of external wounding.
Bob Reid, a vet, in Inverness who coordinates records of cetaceans found dead in Scotland, was keen to do a post-mortem analysis, so the Porpoise was transported to Kirkwall the next day, and thanks to Ross Flett of the seal rescue centre, it was taken to Stromness for onward shipment.
