Entangled Right Whale Respotted, Appears Healthy
Environment News Service, January, 2005
WASHINGTON, DC (ENS) — --> A young male North Atlantic right whale that was partially disentangled from fishing gear by federal scientists last March, was spotted last week off the coast of Cumberland Island, Georgia.
Officials with the National Marine Fisheries Service (NOAA Fisheries) and the Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies (PCCS) closely photographed the whale - called Kingfisher - and assessed the entanglement nine months after the team lost track of it.
"This whale is in much better condition than we had anticipated," said Dr. Charles Mayo, senior scientist and director of whale rescue at PCCS. "Most of the entangling rope has come off the whale during the past year."
In March 2004, the NOAA team removed some rope and gear from the whale as he...
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