Rescue workers are planning how to extract a beluga whale from the River Seine.

The Arctic mammal has found itself trapped between a set of locks in a stretch of the watercourse between Paris and Rouen.

Efforts are continuing to try and get the whale to eat, but they have so far failed.

The marine conservationist group Sea Shepherd France said on Monday that “feeding attempts are continuing in parallel to finding a solution to get it out of the lock in the best conditions”.

Over the weekend, the beluga was given a “vitamin cocktail” in an attempt to keep its nutrition up.

Lamya Essemlali, president Sea Shepherd France, told a news conference this weekend: “It is really extremely thin. Its bones are protruding. I don’t know if it’s already too late”.

Attempts to feed the animal – with both dead herrings and live trouts – have proved fruitless.

Stranded beluga whale in River Seine given ‘vitamin cocktail’

Beluga whale lost in River Seine, France dangerously thin and refusing food

Lost beluga whale spotted in River Seine thousands of miles from Arctic home

The beluga was first spotted in the river, thousands of miles from its homeland, last week.

It is now dozens of miles away from the sea and its normal salty environment.

Experts have warned the whale should not stay too long in the warm, stagnant water between the two locks where it currently resides.

“The beluga still doesn’t eat but continues to show curiosity,” Sea Shepherd France tweeted. Overnight the whale “rubbed itself on the lock’s wall and got rid of patches that had appeared on its back. Antibiotics may also have helped.”

Related posts:

Afghans wave national flag in defiance of Taliban on Independence Day despite violent reprisals ‘It’s worse than we could imagine’: Afghan judges fear for their lives – as UK urged to protect them Maintaining West’s unity will ‘require a lot of effort’, German official says, as France rages over nuclear submarine deal Putin’s party expected to secure emphatic win as polls close in Russia Archbishop Desmond Tutu to lie in state as memorial services announced China complains to UN about Elon Musk’s space satellites US Navy to recover F-35C from South China Sea after crash landing Ukraine president walks fine line between downplaying war threat and appealing for help PM to call Putin and visit Eastern Europe to ‘accelerate diplomatic efforts’ amid Ukraine-Russia tensions ‘Five-star’ beach camping one of the ‘affordable’ options for fans at World Cup in Qatar Briton in controversial Ukrainian military unit prepared to spend year fighting Russia How Russian shelling has wreaked destruction on Azovstal steelworks over course of war