Interpol says it has removed anti-whaling campaigner Paul Watson from its most-wanted list.

France’s highest administrative body has ordered the government to better protect endangered dolphins and porpoises in a French industrial fishing hub in the Atlantic Ocean that has become controversial over links to mass deaths of cetaceans in recent years.

French authorities say a beluga whale stranded for several days in the Seine River had to be euthanized after it was removed from the French waterway.

French environmentalists are hoping to feed a catch of herring to a worryingly thin Beluga whale that has strayed far from its Arctic habitat into the Seine River.