Incident Controller Brendon Clark confirmed there were no surviving whales left on Ocean Beach, near Macquarie Harbour, south of Strahan, as of yesterday.
But a number of whales were seen within the harbour precinct.
While most were swimming freely, a few were spotted stranded in shallower waters and rescuers will attempt to free them today so they can swim out of the harbour.
Authorities plan today to start removing the carcasses of about 200 whales that died in the mass stranding, weather allowing.
Crews plan to tow them out to sea and release them in very deep water.
If the weather permits, crews could clear the beach and potentially finish their response to the mass stranding.
The pilot whales were found last Wednesday stranded on an exposed beach along the west coast of Tasmania.
The incident was the second mass stranding of whales to have taken place in Tasmania last week after more than a dozen sperm whales, mostly young males and believed to be part of the same bachelor pod, were found dead on another beach.
Cases of whale strandings have baffled marine scientists for decades.
Tasmania’s largest stranding was in 2020 when more than 450 pilot whales were found.
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