The City Council is following the protocol for action in response to the appearance of a dead tuna on Poniente beach

Following the necropsy performed on the animal by the Cavanilles Institute, the Department of the Environment is working with a company specialising in the management of animal waste.

Until then and following the established protocol, the specimen, weighing about 300 kilos, has been transferred to a municipal plot in the El Murtal area.

Benidorm City Council is following the established protocols for action in the event of dead marine animals appearing on the coast, after a tuna specimen was found on Poniente beach yesterday. According to the Environment Councillor, Mónica Gómez, as soon as the specimen was found, the sandy area near the shore was cordoned off and, following the protocol established for these cases, the Local Police transferred it to the Cavanilles Institute of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, whose staff proceeded to carry out the corresponding necropsy and take samples on the beach itself.

Once this action was completed, the animal was transferred to a municipal plot located in the El Murtal area, given the impossibility of incinerating it in the crematorium of the Animal Protection Society due to the large size of the specimen, weighing around 300 kilos, and waiting for a company specialising in the management of animal waste to collect it.
 

The councillor has clarified that “this plot is not located in the El Moralet park, as has been wrongly indicated, but in El Murtal”, and has specified that “it is the same one to which all the marine remains are transferred, such as the algae that are removed from the beaches, to proceed with their treatment in accordance with what is established in the protocols”. 

Gómez has pointed out that “one may not agree with the protocols, because obviously nobody likes to have a tuna on the beach for hours, nor in a municipal plot without being able to bury it, but the protocols are there to be complied with and this is what this City Council does”. 

The fact that the discovery has occurred on a weekend and a public holiday has made it difficult to have the specialised and certified animal waste management service, having to postpone this action.