#dolphin death

Boating safety highlighted after untimely death of dolphin yearling off Kauaʻi, humpback calf off Lānaʻi

So far in 2024, NOAA has received six confirmed reports of vessel strikes to humpback whales in Hawaiʻi. Within the span of a few weeks in February, a Hawaiian spinner dolphin yearling and a humpback whale calf stranded dead in Hawaiʻi. Both of their injuries were consistent with vessel strike, according to NOAA.