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Medics have been called out to entangled and distressed seals.
The Marine Conservation Society and British Divers Marine Life Rescue volunteers are urging people to help pick up litter which endangers seals and other marine life along the coast.
In the past two months, a team of marine medics along the coast have been called out to help entangled and distressed seals.
During the summer, seals visiting the shores of North East England were facing a different threat, with many seaside visitors approaching the animals for “seal selfies”.
The Marine Conservation Society said it strongly advises against approaching these animals – while they may look friendly, they are still wild animals.
The pod of 10 finally beached between Tunstall and Withernsea in East Yorkshire.
The main reason for so many whale sightings appears to be huge stocks of various species of squid being lured from their normal north Atlantic homes into the North Sea by increasingly warm sea temperatures caused by climate change.
Although squid is the favoured food for sperm and many other whales the shallower and restricted waters of the North Sea off our east coast pose other threats and difficulties to large whales.
The 10 sperm whale pod that died on the East Yorkshire coast is thought to be the biggest mass stranding of the cetacean in England since scientific records began in 1913.
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What to do if you spot a seal resting on Cleethorpes beach
It comes after a seal spent the night on the beach after missing the high tide
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Cleethorpes Wildlife Rescue and the coastguard have issued a warning to people if they spot a seal resting on the beach.