Entangled gray whale freed from net off Palos Verdes Peninsula

Entangled gray whale freed from net off Palos Verdes Peninsula

Wildlife authorities freed a entangled gray whale Wednesday after it was caught in a net off the Southern California coast. The Marine Mammal Care Center (MMCC) and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) worked together to free the adult whale after weeks of “death and stranding.” The whale was first spotted April 8 near the coast of Palos Verdes Peninsula....

On Wednesday, wildlife authorities released a gray whale entangled in a net off the southern coast of California. The Marine Mammal Care Center (MMCC) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) worked together to free the adult whale after weeks of death and bereavement.

Entangled gray whale freed by NOAA Fisheries team off California coast

The adult gray whale was entangled in a gillnet off Southern California's Palos Verdes PeninsulaAn adult gray whale that was found entangled in a gillnet

Gray whales migrating north are malnourished, stressed and without many newborns, foreshadowing another die-off • Lincoln Chronicle

By DANA TIMS/Lincoln Chronicle Thousands of gray whales now migrating north from Baja California are in such poor shape and so few calves were born this winter that researchers […] The post Gray whales migrating north are malnourished, stressed and without many newborns, foreshadowing another die-off appeared first on Lincoln Chronicle.