{"id":32436,"date":"2024-04-08T15:45:12","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T10:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=32436"},"modified":"2024-04-08T15:45:12","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T10:45:12","slug":"for-the-first-time-rare-whale-sighted-near-gaddani-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/latest-news\/for-the-first-time-rare-whale-sighted-near-gaddani-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"For the first time, rare whale sighted near Gaddani coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GADDANI: Fishermen in the coastal area of Gaddani in Balochistan were left amazed after they witnessed a massive whale sighted just off the coast on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">According to the fishermen, the whale measured approximately 100 and 50 feet in length and width, respectively, and could&#8217;ve weighed more than 150 tonnes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">This is the first time that the massive marine mammal has been sighted in Balochistan\u2019s waters alive as often dead whales wash up on these shores. The fish has been declared endangered by international agencies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/forecast-of-rain-in-country-from-april-10-till-april-15-with-gaps-pmd\/\">PMD forecasts rain spells in country from April 10 till April 15<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The whale sighting has given the fishermen&#8217;s community optimism that the waters of Balochistan are still home to a healthy marine ecosystem.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">In 2021, scientists discovered that whales were making their way back to the Indian Ocean, where they may even be mating. There was hope that whales would repopulate the ocean after footage of the giant fish went viral near the coast of Seychelles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Last year in May, a 27-foot-long Blue whale had washed up dead near Balochistan\u2019s coast in a remote area of Raini Hor between Pasni and Shumal Bundar. <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">It was identified as a blue whale, one of the three whale species found in Pakistani waters, alongside Bryde\u2019s whale and Arabian humpback whale.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GADDANI: Fishermen in the coastal area of Gaddani in Balochistan were left amazed after they witnessed a massive whale sighted just off the coast on Tuesday. According to the fishermen, the whale measured approximately 100 and 50 feet in length and width, respectively, and could&#8217;ve weighed more than 150 tonnes. This is the first time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":32437,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[14794,14792,14791,14793],"class_list":["post-32436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","tag-blue-whale-sighted-near-gaddani","tag-gaddani-whale-spotted","tag-gwadar-whale","tag-whale-spotted-near-balochistan-coast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}