I\u2019m riding the ferry between Trois-Pistoles and Les Escoumins when my phone rings. To be honest, I miss the call because it came at the same time a mock rescue was taking place, which had captured my full attention. So it is against a backdrop of cheers and applause as the poor life jacket is \u201crescued\u201d from the water that I get back to Patrick, head of the Marine Mammal Emergencies (UMM) intervention program. An intervention is planned the following morning to take samples of a stranded minke whale carcass not far from Pessamit in Quebec\u2019s C\u00f4te-Nord region. Patrick asks me if might be interesting in participating in the intervention, an opportunity I don\u2019t want to miss!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I\u2019m riding the ferry between Trois-Pistoles and Les Escoumins when my phone rings. To be honest, I miss the call because it came at the same time a mock rescue was taking place, which had captured my full attention. So it is against a backdrop of cheers and applause as the poor life jacket is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12857,"featured_media":66940,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[401],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-field-notes"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n