Whale Saved From Death By Entanglement Off New England Coast
Members of the Marine Animal Entanglement Response team saved a whale named Valley this week from certain death, after the animal became entangled and eventually anchored by both line and heavy gear.
The heroes, or rock stars, as commentators on Facebook have been calling them this week, came to the rescue the distressed animal after a group on a whale watch excursion took notice of it. Word eventually made it s way to members of the Marine Animal Entanglement Response at the Center for Coastal Studies in Provincetown, Massachusetts, a non-profit research and rescue organization.
Endangered Whale Dies After Being Caught Up in Fishing Gear for Five Months
On 3/1/21 at 9:08 AM EST
A critically endangered whale has died off the coast of South Carolina after being entangled in fishing gear for around five months.
Officials from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration s (NOAA) Greater Atlantic Regional Fisheries Office (GARFO) said Sunday that a North Atlantic right whale, known as Cottontail, had been found dead around 15 miles from the coast of Myrtle Beach.
The 11-year-old male had previously been seen entangled in fishing gear in October 2020, off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts.
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At that time, a Marine Animal Entanglement Response team from the Center for Coastal Studies attached tracking devices to the ropes entangling the whale in order to monitor its movements via satellite and provide information for future disentanglement efforts. They also removed some of the fishing gear from the whale.