While visiting their shrimp breeding ponds, local people in Ba Don town in the central province of Quang Binh saw a dead whale weighing about 1 ton, 8 meters long, that was decomposing ashore.

Local people in Duc Minh commune, Mo Duc district, Quang Ngai, were sparing no effort to save a 700-kg whale pushed ashore, said Chairman of the Duc Minh Commune People’s Committee Vo Minh Quang on February 17.

A whale died on Monday in Vinh Hy Gulf of the south-central province of Ninh Thuan, despite the efforts of local residents and authorities to save the animal over the past three days.

A whale weighing around two tonnes has been found dead on a beach in the southern central province of Khanh Hoa.

Fishermen in the central province of Ha Tinh have found a dead whale weighing around one tonne at a local beach.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Fishermen in the central province of Quang Binh found a dead whale on shore along the coast in Duc Trach Commune in Bo Trach District in the morning of March 23.

 VietNamNet Bridge - On Sunday morning, a fisherman from Ly Son Island, in Quang Ngai Province, towed a 12-meter long dead whale from Truong Sa (Spratly) Islands to Ly Son for burial.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Covering approximately 3.000m2, there are hundreds of graves of whales. Fishermen worship whales like dead men. This is the largest cemetery for whales in Vietnam.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Sala Po Thi Seray Sako or New Temple in Vinh Chau town, Soc Trang province, has built the grave for a 10-ton whale that was found dead on the coast on October 11.

Typhoon Nari swept across the Philippines’ Luzon Island on October 12, entering the East Sea, the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting reported.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A shark of half of a ton, a 4-ton whale, giant barbs and ocean sunfish are among the "monsters" that were caught in a net in Vietnam.

A whale of more than 2m long, nearly 200kg in weight was stranded on the beach of Thach Bi 2 village, in front of the whale temple in Duc Pho district of Quang Ngai province in the afternoon of June 13.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Fishermen and relevant agencies of the central province of Quang Binh successfully rescued a whale of more than one ton that was caught in a net today, May 22.

On May 11, fishermen of Thua Thien-Hue province discovered a whale had floated to Binh An sea near the port of Chan May, about 1 km from the coast.

VietNamNet Bridge – Hearing of a whale stranded on the beach, members of the Thang Loi Cooperative in Bac Lieu Province mobilized hundreds of fishermen to rescue the fish because they believed that this species is very sacred.