{"id":1057,"date":"2010-07-28T16:12:45","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T16:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/?p=1057"},"modified":"2010-11-09T16:20:19","modified_gmt":"2010-11-09T16:20:19","slug":"dead-monk-seal-pup-found-on-ni%e2%80%98ihau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/28\/dead-monk-seal-pup-found-on-ni%e2%80%98ihau\/","title":{"rendered":"Dead monk seal pup found on Ni\u2018ihau"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Media Watch, The Garden Island, 27 July 2010<\/h5>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com\/thegardenisland.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/editorial\/a\/a5\/8b3\/aa58b3b2-7a08-59bc-984e-77252c09b41f-revisions\/4c4fbcd630784.preview-300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" \/>LIHU\u2018E \u2014 Federal authorities are continuing to investigate the cause of death of an endangered Hawaiian monk seal pup found over the weekend on Ni\u2018ihau.<\/p>\n<p>The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Marine Fisheries Services reached out Monday to Bruce Robinson \u2014 one of the family members who owns the island \u2014 to retrieve the carcass so that a necropsy might be done.<\/p>\n<p>By the time Ni\u2018ihau men reached the pup all that was left was the skull and skeleton, so NOAA was no longer interested in the retrieval, according to Wende Goo, NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>The Ni\u2018ihau men reported finding something else near the dead pup \u2014 fresh footprints leading right up to the animal from the beach, according to Bruce Robinson\u2019s brother, Keith Robinson.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>He suspects fishing and diving charter boats may be to blame, but this allegation could not be confirmed. Several scuba companies on Kaua\u2018i offer Ni\u2018ihau dive tours.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are commercial charter boats hanging right off shore there and the people are repeatedly intruding right in the middle of the main area where the monk seals are born,\u201d Keith Robinson said of an area of Ni\u2018ihau\u2019s northwestern shoreline known as Kawaiaina that has a wide reef with lots of protected, shallow pools inside. The dead pup was discovered in this vicinity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis kind of thing has got to stop at some point or else we\u2019re going to lose all the monk seals. A decision\u2019s going to have to be made whether we\u2019re going to tolerate people intruding in all the areas where the monk seals are on Ni\u2018ihau,\u201d he said. 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