Thirteen of 25 dolphins stranded on the shores of Del Gallego town in Camarines Sur province on Tuesday died from what fisheries officials described as injuries suffered from blast fishing. A necropsy performed on the Fraser’s dolphins showed “hemorrhages in almost entire body and blood oozing from the mouth, eyes and ears,” Nonie Enolva, spokesperson for the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources in Bicol region, said in a statement. The marine mammals were found by fishers on the shores of Barangay Magais 1 at 4 a.m. The 12 surviving dolphins were released back to Ragay Gulf after these were examined by local responders.

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