Excerpt from khon2.com
WALDPORT, Ore. (KOIN 6) — A large boat, suspected to
be debris from a Japanese earthquake and tsunami in 2011, was spotted
off the Oregon Coast Thursday near Seal Rock.
The fiberglass boat is around 25-30 feet long, and appears to be half
to two-thirds of a larger vessel that was possibly set adrift, the
Oregon Parks and Recreation Department said.
Rob and Debbie Parks spotted the mussel-and-barnacle glazed hull Thursday afternoon about two miles off the coast of Newport.
“Over the horizon I saw this flat black thing,” he told KOIN 6 News. “Of course it was almost clear down under water.”
David Debelloy spent six hours towing it in after biologists OK’d the
move after the passengers were found and determined to pose no threat
as an invasive species.
variety of live yellowtail jack fish from Japanese coastal waters were
found attached to a large boat suspected to be debris from the 2011
Japanese earthquake and tsunami, spotted off the Oregon Coast, April 10,
2015 (KOIN 6 News)
“We have 20 yellowtail jacks and a striped beakfish,” said Erin Paxton of the Oregon Coast Aquarium.
Biologists with the Oregon Coast Aquarium and OSU’s Hatfield Marine
Science Center determined the organisms still attached to the vessel
posed a low threat to the Oregon Coast ecosystem.
“They were probably born outside of that boat, but arrived in that
boat,” said Jim Burke, the director of animal husbandry at the aquarium.
Biologists will DNA-test the larger yellowtails to determine exactly
where they’re from, but the striped beak fish is native to the Japanese
coastal waters.
“Fish of that size in such a small hold, I don’t know, I’ve never
seen anything like it,” Burke said. “It’s pretty interesting and they’re
in apparently good shape.”
The plan for the boat now is to move it to a place where it can be
lifted from the water and inspected again. Once it’s determined to be
safe, it will be dismantled and dumped at a landfill.
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