Zeedijk, Westkapelle, Netherlands 3 October 2022
Dead body floating in North Sea discovered on 30 September off Belgian coast and driven ashore in the morning of 2 October. Length around 14 metres.
Heavily hunted in the 20th Century with more as 725,000 caught in the Southern Hemisphere in the period 1905-1976 it resulted that by 1977 only 38,000 were still alive. Since then hunting on the fin whale stopped except for Iceland and Japan which started again. Average length adult male and females 18,5 respectively 20 metres (61, 66 feet) with an average weight of 38.5 and 50.5 tons in the Northern Hemisphere with as figures for the Southern Hemisphere 20.5 respectively 22 metres and 52.5 respectively 63 tons.
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