Karen Stockin, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University and Antonio Fernández, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria When a humpback whale became entangled in a craypot line off Kaikōura last week, witnesses described it thrashing in distress for ten minutes before eventually freeing itself. It was a fortunate outcome.
Elsewhere in New Zealand and Australia, similar cases have required complex disentanglement operations involving trained…
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