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Articles tagged with: polypropylene rope
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This past Sunday (12/06/09) afternoon, rescuers from the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary freed a juvenile Humpack. The entangled young whale was first spotted by a whale-watching cruise on Dec 1st. Apparently hundreds of feet of polypropylene rope was entangled through the animals mouth, around its head and behind its blowhole.
Members from NOA’s Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary, NOAA’s Pacific Islands Regional Office and Hawaii’s Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) were allowed close enough to cut the lines using specialized equipment after a …
