Juvenile Dolphin Found Dead on Beach with Multiple Gunshot Wounds: NOAA Offers $20,000 Reward for Information
TAMPA, Fla. – The discovery of a dolphin shot to death on a beach in Cameron Parish, Louisiana has sparked outrage and prompted the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries Services to offer a $20,000 reward for information. The juvenile bottlenose dolphin was found on West Mae’s Beach with multiple bullets lodged in its brain, spinal cord, and heart on March 13th. A necropsy revealed that the dolphin had likely died from trauma inflicted …