Fishing Vessel Joins Trained Team to Free Injured Humpback Whale 20 Miles Off Oregon Coast
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A researcher in a US Coast Guard helicopter first spotted the entangled humpback whale anchored to the bottom about 20 miles off the Oregon Coast on July 23. He could see the whale’s white pectoral flipper extended underwater and the outline of its white baleen showing a lower jaw stretched permanently open, making it unable to feed.
Hayslip reported the whale anchored by heavy fishing gear to NOAA’s West Coast Entanglement Hotline, which activates trained responders across the region...
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