SP-114 



Date stranded: 2/22/90 



Sex: Female 



Length: 234.5 cm 



Weight: 138.6 kg 



Pathology notes: Held in freezer prior to necropsy at GNRL. 



Necropsy by Dr. Tarpley (TAMD) . Many wraps of monofilament 

 fishing line around left tailfluke blade. Blubber thickness 

 1.5 - 2.4 cm. Several punctate skin lesions over body. 

 Minimal tooth wear. Essentially no parallel rake marks. 

 Adhesion (17 X 15 cm) of cranial portion of right lung to 

 thoracic wall. Extensive adhesions of loops of intestine 

 with each other and with pseudopancreas and mesentery. No 

 gross tissue reaction appeared to be associated with these 

 adhesions. 



Pathology summary: Fisheries interaction mortality. 



6A-321 



Date stranded: 3/13/90 



Sex: Female (juvenile) 



Length: 161.5 cm 



Weight: 40.5 kg 



Pathology notes: Held on ice and necropsied without freezing at 

 TVMDL. This was a live stranding but received no treatment 

 (died before TMMSN personnel arrived). Necropsy by Dr. 

 Robinson (TVMDL) and Dr. Teirpley (TAMO). Microbiology by 

 Dr. Whitford (TVMDL). Several rake marks (some fresh) and 

 severe skin lesions randomly distributed. Skin lesions 

 resulted from local ischemic necrosis caused by blockage of 

 vessels by bacteria. Lymphoid hyperplasia in lymph node. 

 Focal necrosis and inflaiOJiu'jory infiltration of lung tissue. 

 Bacterial isolates: Enterics from skin and Aeromonas lung. 

 No viruses isolated. 



Pathology summary: - Bacterial pneumonia and septicemia. 



PI-38 



Date stranded: 3/28/90 



Sex: Female (adult) 



Length: 246.5 cm 



Weight: Not weighed 



Pathology notes: Held on ice and necropsied without freezing at 

 TVMDL. Considerable PMA. Necropsy by Dr. Fiske (TVMDL) and 

 Dr. Tarpley (TVMDL). Histopath by Dr. Fiske. Microbiology 

 by Dr. Whitford (TVMDL). Term fetus wrapped in amnion found 

 free in abdominal cavity. A tear in the uterine wall may 

 have been caused by knife cut when abdomen was punctured by 

 unknotm person on beach. Bacterial isolates: Enterics and 

 Aeromonas from intestine (no Salmonella ) j Enterics and 

 Clostri'dlum perf ringens ) from lung. 



Pathology sunmiaryl Possible calving-associated mortality. 



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