Operation to free young animal from entanglement of ropes and buoys conducted ‘very carefully’
Jessica Fox, the second vice-president of volunteer organisation Orrca, confirmed the rescue late on Friday morning.
The young adult whale, between 10 to 15 metres long, was spotted about 1pm on Thursday by a tour group, who alerted Orrca.attached to the whale on Thursday before rescue efforts were paused overnight. However, the tracker detached and the whale had to be relocated on Friday morning., the mammal was between Middle Head and North Head. The group reported an “entanglement ropes and buoys attached to tail”.
New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service and Maritime NSW had vessels on-site monitoring the whale and enforcing an exclusion zone, a spokesperson for the former said.Wildlife officers used specialised cutting equipment to free the whale from ropes that had wrapped around its tail. The equipment featured a long pole with blades that do not impact the whale while cutting through rope.
“It’s obviously a very complicated operation,” the NSW National Parks and Wildlife service area manager, Ben Khan, said during a press conference.Our Australian afternoon update breaks down the key stories of the day, telling you what’s happening and why it matters“The entanglement was around its tail … it’s quite a simple entanglement, but it was a very active animal. So it had to be done very carefully this morning.
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