July 20, 2023 — A boat captain on the Barnegat Bay on Monday morning found a dead dolphin floating near Tice’s Shoal off Island Beach State Park.
Korey Tomei was providing a boating lesson at about 9:30 a.m. when he spotted what the Marine Mammal Stranding Center confirmed to be an adult male bottlenose dolphin.
From a distance, Tomei said thought he had spotted garbage and only realized what he saw was a dolphin after moving in for a closer look as he had planned to retrieve the trash.