Friends Mourn Loss of N.B. Fisherman Who Freed Dozens of Entangled Whales
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [The Canadian Press] July 12, 2017
CAMPOBELLO ISLAND, N.B. — A lobster fisherman with a passion for freeing whales from deadly fishing line was killed soon after he cut the last piece of rope from a massive whale in the waters off eastern New Brunswick, friends and colleagues confirmed Tuesday.
They say Joe Howlett had helped rescue about two dozen whales over the last 15 years.
Mackie Green of the Campobello Whale Rescue Team said Howlett had boarded a federal Fisheries Department vessel off Shippagan on Monday to help a North Atlantic right whale that had become entangled in a heavy snarl of ...
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