Quebec Marine Mammal Emergency Response Network<\/a> in suspense on June 8, 2017. MICS researcher David Gaspar was offshore at the entrance to Gasp\u00e9 Bay when he spotted a humpback with two buoys and a bunch of ropes in tow. The whale dives and rises without the two buoys, but is still ensnared in the rope.<\/p>\nThe researcher dials 1-877-7baleine to report the incident. In the absence of appropriate equipment and for safety reasons, the crew is unable to help the whale. He documents the situation as best he can to provide expert teams with the information they\u2019ll need for a future response.<\/p>\n
At the same time, a crew from the whale-watching outfitter Croisi\u00e8res Baie de Gasp\u00e9 also photographs the animal and observes its condition. The humpback whale is moving slowly, but manages to swim freely and breath correctly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The resilience of whales never ceases to amaze us! By analyzing photos taken in the summer of 2018, the Mingan Island Cetacean Study (MICS) team succeeded in identifying whale H710, a.k.a. Snowball. This female had been spotted on June 8, 2017 entangled in the ropes of crab traps and had not been seen since. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":44674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[409],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marine-mammal-emergencies"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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