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"When a humpback whale became entangled in a craypot line off Kaikōura last
week, witnesses described it thrashing in distress for ten minutes before
eventually freeing itself.
It was a fortunate outcome.
Elsewhere in New Zealand and Australia, similar cases have required complex
disentanglement operations involving trained rescue teams, multiple vessels and
specialist equipment.
In one recent Australian case, rescuers removed hundreds of metres of fishing
line, hooks, rope and buoys from a young whale whose movement and feeding
ability had already been severely compromised.
These interventions are often reported as conservation success stories.
Sometimes they are.
But they also reveal a more confronting and often overlooked reality about
whale and dolphin entanglements. For many animals, the real issue is not
whether they escape. It is what happens afterwards."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
