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New England Seacoast seeing harbor seal die-off, cause unknown

RYE — A total of 94 harbor seals have washed up along the New England coast from Maine to just north of Boston since Sept. 1, and officials have no idea why, according to a spokesperson from the New England Aquarium in Boston.

The unusual spectacle grabbed everyone's attention around Sept. 29, according to Tony Lacasse, spokesperson for the New England Aquarium, when surfers at Rye Beach noticed a group of deal harbor seals washed ashore.

"When we sent a veterinarian, they found six dead harbor seals," Lacasse said. "Some had been dead a couple weeks some had been dead a couple days."

That particular day was a lunar high tide, with big surf, according to Lacasse, who said that all the flotsam, a piece of pier, or a carcass would all come up at the same time.

Read the complete story from Foster's Daily Democrat.

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