"With that number dead, you have to assume that the rest are in reasonably poor nick as well," he told Radio New Zealand. "The dead ones that are floating around out there are obstructing their course out to sea," he told AFP. "He said most of the surviving whales had been refloated and dozens of volunteers formed a human chain to try to stop them beaching again. "We've got a line of people between the shore and the whales to screen them and stop them coming back in," he said. "If you designed something to catch whales then Golden Bay is probably the perfect design," he said.

Source: thestar February 10, 2017 02:26 UTC