Rewards are being offered in two recent deadly incidents involving dolphins — one that was “harassed to death” on a Texas beach and a second in Florida that
Highlights
- A $20,000 reward is being offered in a March 24 case, in which a dolphin was found dead from impalement with a spear-like object on a Fort Myers Beach, Florida.
- That dolphin died after washing ashore at Quintana Beach, southwest of Galveston, on April 10.
- The mammal was pushed back into deeper water as some beachgoers tried to “ride the sick animal” The dolphin had to be euthanized, the Texas Marine Mammal Stranding Network said on Facebook.
- On Wednesday the group said it successfully rescued a dolphin after it was found stranded in High Island, in Texas.
- Violators can be fined $100,000 and be sentenced to one year behind bars.