The Sea World marine rescue crew has had one of their busiest years ever disentangling whales off the east Australian coast, and what happens after they are freed has long been a mystery — until now.
The Sea World marine rescue crew has recorded 42 whale entanglements off the coast of Qld and NSW this year.
The Gold Coast's Sea World Foundation is dispatched to free humpback whales trapped in fishing lines and shark nets along the southern Queensland and New South Wales coastline. Humpback whales travel up and down Australia's east coast from June to October for their annual migration."There are lots of lines they can't see; it's really hard for them to navigate around it," Dr Meynecke said.Rescue boat captain Andrew Mulville said he expected high numbers of entanglements in the future."It's like a minefield for them coming up our coastline, there are a lot of things for them to get entangled in," he said.
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