Berlin – The humpback whale that remained stranded for weeks on the German coast and that after a high-profile and costly rescue operation was returned to the North Sea to die shortly after, will be converted into biofuel, as confirmed this Tuesday to EFE. the Danish company Daka Denmark.
A spokesperson for the company corroborated the information that had previously been published by the German media, many of which have followed the fate of the animal, baptized “Timmy,” almost to the minute, even during the two weeks that its corpse spent floating off the Danish coast.
In the European Union (EU) waste of animal origin is classified into three categories, of which whales fall into category one, corresponding to the highest level of risk and subject to the strictest management and use requirements, the spokesperson explained.
“For category one material, the fat can be used for the production of biodiesel, while the meal resulting from meat and bones is used as biofuel for energy recovery, for example in the production of cement,” he explained.
The remains of the cetacean were removed this Monday from the beach of the Danish island of Anholt, including some bones that, according to a biologist from the Copenhagen Museum of Natural Sciences to TV2, will be transferred to that center to be exhibited there later.
Last Thursday, the animal’s autopsy was completed, which failed to determine a conclusive cause for its death or for the erratic behavior it had shown in its last weeks of life.
Since the end of March, “Timmy” had run aground in several places on the German Baltic coast and had finally remained stranded for weeks in an inlet, while the scientific community and a growing community of media and curious people debated whether or not it was advisable to rescue her.
Finally, although experts stated that it was best to let the whale die in peace, the authorities authorized a private rescue initiative, financed by millionaires, which managed to load it onto a barge and release it into the North Sea, where it was quickly lost track of.
At the beginning of May, a humpback whale that was identified as “Timmy” finally appeared dead off the island of Anholt, which opened another chapter of frustrated attempts to, in this case, tow the corpse to land, given the risk that the body swollen by decomposition gases would end up exploding.