Mournful visitors gawked at a 40,000-pound juvenile fin whale that washed up on shore off Malibu this week. 

The dead whale is believed to have been hit by a boat, the Seattle Post Intelligencer reports.

In addition to a pungent smell, the rotting carcass of the endangered animal has raised concerns that it will attract sharks to the area. 

James Respondek, a local resident, said he was frustrated that no agency would remove the carcass, the news source reports:

“There seems to be no readiness to take responsibility, to take action, just a lot of excuses. ‘I don’t have a boat, I don’t have the money, I don’t have the reources,’ they all told me,” he said.

If anyone does try to remove it, let’s hope they follow the lesson learned from this beached whale in Oregon — in this case officials chose to dynamite it, to ill-effect: