Khaled Fahmy, minister, environment, Egypt, in an official statement, directed the field monitoring teams in the Red Sea and South Sinai reserves, to follow up the surveillance of the whale, to follow up the whale, photograph it and track its movement in the sea.
The statement noted that the marine environment experts of the ministry will study the causes of the existence of mammal in this place and analyse the results in the coming days. The observed whale is about 24 m long and is a subspecies known as the pygmy blue whale.