Dominica News Online has learnt that a huge fish washed ashore at the Purple Turtle Beach in Portsmouth earlier today.
Residents said it washed ashore about 3:00 this afternoon and when they converged on the scene they realized it was bleeding from the side of its head and was already dead.
The residents speculate that the creature is a whale but Dominica News Online is unable to confirm this.
DNO is trying to get more information on this matter.
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looks more like a very very large knife fish of some kind
Dat looking like a boy i know from wall house name khester ehh..lollollol
BELIEVE ME THIS IS A HUMAN BEING FROM VIEILLE-CASE LIVING IN GUADELOUPE. MARK MY WORDS
WE WERE TOGETHER BUT I SURVIVED
Bodyay a alien…i think it’s a reptilian..
this is a creature from the former james adminstration that was thrown in the deep sea.
It looks like Benji from KKK
IT DOES LOOK LIKE BENJI.
HAHAHAHA BOY ALL U ENT EASY
that is not a fish, that is a sookooyan !!!
This is a spy fish sent by USA. First they send Peace corp to spy on us and now fish. trolllolololol.
HA HA HA HA HA
THIS CREATURE LOOKS LIKE MY MOTHER-IN-LAW.
COULD SOMEBODY MAKE SURE THE THING IS DEAD FOR ME PLEASE?
Whale meat….whale meat!!….anybody want whale meat? Whale meat Going cheap!!!
we have to ask our selves a question. wat caused the mutation of this strange fish? and what cause it death. please bring it to the lab for autopsy.and find out the real cause and the specie of the creature.for the past few days fishes have been washing up to our shores. Is there something going on under the water that we dont know about? are the fishes running away from something terrible? please investigate the matter about fishes on our shores.
who said it mutated there are fish in the sea if you saw them you would scream
Get a life son.. This is a deep sea fish.. we dont see much of thee fishes because they stay way under the water where it is cold..This fish must have gotten with a fight with a shark or squid. Look up rear strange fishes on google and you would be amazed by all the un heard species that thrive deep under the waters. Once in a while some wash up to shore.. This is not a whale ppl.. this is not a mutation this is a species we have not really seen but lives deep under the sea. Get a life and stop the conspiracy bull crap.
It is a pilot whale
This is a pilot whale people. check google and it will tell you
Honestly I thought it was from the 1st time i looked at the pic but when i looked at the pics off google it still did not look like one.. In some way it does in others it does not.. Im no expert so my say is not solid. I will accept what the expert said..Pilot Whale. I DID’NT KNOW WE HAD PILOT WHALES BY THE WAY.. HOW MANY SPECIES DOES DOMINICA HAVE? WOW
yes it mutated i was told because the tale was cut off i was told.whether that happened before it came ashore i dont know.But what ever happened there should have had some research done before discarding the carcass. This could be an indication of abnormal activities in our waters, either natural or man made.what about the recent tremors tha we had could there be any connection? or is there heavy machines like submarines in our waters? these do affect whales and other marine life due to loud noises and vibrations.we should be somewhat concerned
It’s obvious people on here have no idea what a troll is “epic troll face on”
Come on guys its obviously a mutated human-man fish like at the man like head xD
we may have just discovered an new species…kool
ahhhhhh poor thing.So sad.
Check link for what is to come from the sighting of this “rare fish.”
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/776761–rare-oarfish-believed-to-herald-quakes
this is a pilot whale
this animal is the result of a dolphin and a whale mating….REAL REAL TALK!!!!!!!!!!!
But it does look like a baby pilot whale!
That thing looks deformed and alien!!! Reminds me of that movie EVOLUTION!!
lol…allu killing me dere wii… But I say is the Loch Nest Monster that there…we finally found it…hehehehe
It probably is a young pilot whale, like commenters posted below. But just FYI, the number of creatures that could potentially wash up on our shores is significant, since there are deep-water fishes that we do not often encounter and that would look utterly bizarre if they appeared on a beach. There is a creature called an oarfish, for instance, which lives deep in the sea and resembles nothing so much as a sea serpent; were it to wash ashore, it would indeed resemble that mythological creature. Moreover, some creatures’ corpses also undergo severe degradation, so severe in some cases, in fact, that they do not resemble the original creature much at all. The classic example is the basking shark, the washed-up corpses of which sometimes decompose beyond all visible recognition. Octopi, giant squids, and whales also may form such corpses. These scarcely recognizable objects are known as “globsters,” and you can read an informal description of them on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globster
And here is an artist’s rendering of an oarfish that apparently washed ashore in Bermuda in 1860: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Giant_oarfish_bermuda_beach_1860.jpg
This clearly is not such a thing, but if a globster should wash ashore, I imagine it would cause great speculation (as well as the usual cries from certain persons that the world is ending), so it’s best to be aware of the possibilities of what such an object may be.
Mr. or Ms. Humanist, these comments were very informative and educational. You really know your onions.
Nice of you to share this information. never knew the “oar fish” existed. Thumbs up!
some ah these comments killin me…. boy u da ppl kn how to mek someones day!!!
Although the entire body is not depicted in the photo, it appears to be one of the very shy and infrequently sighted dwarf sperm whales that I have been observing since the 1980’s.
One has Always been sighted in the same location approximately 1/2 mile south west of the outer Cabrit.
Two others always sighted west of soufriere
i hust googled it, and yeah it does look like a baby pilot whale
WHAT’S UP D.N.O.. YOU USED TO HAVE SUBTITLES UNDER THE NEWS COURT,CRIME,SPORTS,ENTERTAINMENT ETC. SO IT COULD BE EASY TO LOOK FOR PAST STORIES EVEN IF IT WAS JUST A WEEK AGO NOW I DON’T SEE THAT.I RATHERED HOW YOU ORGANIZED YOUR PAGE A YEAR AGO.BRING IT BACK.
i agree with u…
IT’S A BABY PILOT WHALE OR WHAT WE CALL IN DOMINICA A BOT.
Is it the angle of the pic or my eyes… but is anyone else seeing that the fish eye is closed??
u know is first time i c a fish eye close check it out well close to thats not a fish they better check it out
It is not a fish. It is a mammal-the pilot whale
this is not a fish. this is part of an alien colony which has come for our resources like water to power their mother ship and drones
SOTTTTTTTTTTT!
lol omg good laugh @ alien colony lol
lol
I AGREE
lol
fellars was der with their cutlasses.. i bet last night some alien meat was cooked
Where are you from?
Indeed it looks like a baby pilot whale. Wasnt the fisheries division contacted to confirm the specie? Just wondering what caused the wound on its body?
Big up to my girl the photographer.
I tink dat it was really a whale. A baby one dat is. I saw de face wen it was tied and lifted by a caterpiller. man dat pulled a crowd we.
lol, reeti
its a juvenile pilot whale been hit by a fishermans boat, you can see the slices along it’s flank. Pilot whales are not fish. they are marine mammals.
a demon maybe?
lol
u dumb.
so you doh think de sea have demons, asked them woodfordhill fisherman that through their obeah water to catch fish,,,, hahhahah
Why do you people talk so much nonsense? If it was a demon do you think it would let you go like that?
I checked google for images of a baby pilot whale, and I think this has some similarities. I may be wrong. A hungry shark may have bitten it causing it to get seperated from its parents and thus being forced to wash up on the shore from its weakness. Just maybe….
What an imagination!!
THAT LOOKS LIKE A DINOSAUR THAT LIVES UNDERNEATH CABRITS AND HELPS TO KEEP THE AREA CLEAN.
Clean from what? Certainly not trash, there is plenty of that laying around.
OMG!!! u guys r killing me here
Boy you people will certainly allow people to think that we Dominicans are so stupid
arhhhhh!! just 2 pictures?!!! why i am never there for curious events like that!!
THAT IS A SPY FISH DOMINICANS BEWARE STRANGE THINGS ARE HAPPENING
no no no allyou wrong, i saw that fish last week, little mermaid brother that there.
I saw it and it looks strange. If it is a whale, it’s a very young one for its size. WHALES ARE HUGE.
that is not a fish.
Its a mammal. One can tell from the blow hole on the top of the head.
It resembles a juvenile pilot whale, but don’t quote me on that. There is also a possibility that it is a porpoise.
I share the same views