An elephant-seal pup was stabbed repeatedly on the beach in Neskowin on the North Coast of Oregon in March, officials said.

The attack happened on Sunday, March 16, between 8 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. in the small, unincorporated community on the North Oregon coast, about 10 miles from Pacific City. The pup received multiple stab wounds but survived, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said in a statement.

NOAA’s Office of Law Enforcement is asking for the public’s help finding a man it’s calling a person of interest. The man is white, about 5’10” and with “black and white hair, a groomed beard and a large gap between his front teeth.”

A witness spotted him wearing aviator glasses, “a thin blue-and-light-green fleece top over a thin, lined/check shirt” and a black cap with “a logo depicting an orange four-track excavator with the word ‘Timber,’” the NOAA statement said.Authorities are also looking for a dark-blue 1990s van with a rear, driver’s-side window covered in plastic and a “cluttered” interior.

NOAA asks anyone with information to call its enforcement hotline at 800-853-1964.