Common minke whale juvenile female minke whale died from domoic acid poisoning by ingesting northern anchovies – a known domoic acid vector – during an intense "Pseudo-nitzschia" bloom off Southern California. In March 2013, a severely emaciated juvenile male stranded at Nieuwpoort, Belgium. It was believed to have died after a prolonged starvation due to compacted plastic debris obstructing its digestive tract – the first confirmed case of death due to the ingestion of litter in a baleen whale. In May 2014, a individual that stranded at Atlantic City, New Jersey, tested positive for morbillivirus. Several minke whales have been briefly held in
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