Infant and stillborn dolphins still washing up along Gulf Coast

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Karen Nelson | Biloxi Sun Herald

GULFPORT -- The bodies of five more dolphins have been reported since late last night along the Mississippi and Alabama coasts, some of them infants.

The Pascagoula Police Department spotted one along front beach while on patrol last night, police said. It was an infant and the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies has retrieved it.

A spokeswoman for the institute said two have been reported on Horn Island today, one in Long Beach and another one on Dauphin Island. A calf was retrieved from Dauphin Island on Thursday.

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