Developments in Brief : Sick Dolphins Will Be Caught for Study
Marine biologists plan to capture sick dolphins in hopes of learning what is causing the mysterious deaths of the mammals along the mid-Atlantic coast, scientists in Virginia Beach said last week.
“We are anticipating within the next week that we will capture some live animals,” said Brian Gorman, spokesman for the National Marine Fisheries Service. He said personnel and equipment from Sea World in Orlando, Fla., arrived in Norfolk last week.
Access to a live bottlenose dolphin promises the marine biologists a far better source of information than the usually decomposed carcasses that they have been examining in recent weeks.
Since July, about 200 dead dolphins have washed ashore along the mid-Atlantic Coast.
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