Dolphin found stranded in New Jersey river

A bottle-nosed dolphin was seen swimming in an inland freshwater river in central New Jersey.

A bottlenose dolphin has made South River its home for the past week.

A dolphin stranded in a New Jersey river died Saturday despite efforts to coax it into deeper water, said volunteers at the Marine Mammal Stranding Center.

According to NBC 10, officials are monitoring a dolphin spotted in New Jersey’s South River near Old Matawan Road in Old Bridge. On Thursday, Marine Mammal Stranding Center technicians from Bigantine, New Jersey, were trying to use an electronic underwater nuisance device that will send noise to the dolphin and it will move back to the ocean.

Rescuers took the dolphin out of the water and tried to move it to a veterinarian but it died on the way there.

Schoelkopf said that they will try to lead the dolphin back to the ocean again, but they hope that no one else would try to rescue the animal on their own to lessen the stress placed on it. “The location is so remote and risky that we can’t put any of our people in it. There are no banks on side of river, it just drops down and river is covered with broken concrete and metal bars”.

When officials saw the dolphin Saturday he was having a seizure and struggling…