April 17, 2013 - 9:00pm
By Darrell Bellaart, Nanaimo Daily News
April 17, 2013
Donors are needed to help turn a grey whale skeleton into an educational exhibit at VIU's Deep Bay Marine Field Station.
Three years ago a dead whale washed up on a Sooke beach.
Sightseers started removing parts off the whale - a disrespectful act, in the eyes of the Scia'new First Nation people, and possibly a health hazard, since the carcass was starting to decay.
It so happened staff with Vancouver Island University were on the lookout for a whale carcass at the time.
It took the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans to connect the two.
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[CTV news clip](http://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=904933)
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