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Sedatives Used to Free Whale From Fishing Line
Animals  (tags: whales, animals, Florida coast, fishing line )

Anna
- 845 days ago - news.yahoo.com
Researchers have a new tactic to save endangered whales tangled in fishing line: Get them to calm down with sedatives shot from a dart gun so they can pull closer and cut the potentially fatal gear away.The method was used Jan. 15 off the Florida coast...
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A Great Day for a Young Duck
Animals  (tags: ducks, fishing line, rescued, animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildanimals, wildlife )

Cher
- 1534 days ago - wildlife-rescue.org
Wildlife Rescue & Rehabilitation (WRR) Veterinarian Dr. Megan McAndrew recounts a particularly meaningful day for a young duck -- and for her. The downy little duck came to WRR with at least a foot of fishing line protruding from his beak.
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Wind Hampers Effort to Free Endangered Right Whale
Animals  (tags: florida, marine wildlife, whales, right whale, fishing line, endangered, extinction, habitat, humans, suffering, protection )

Jacquelin
- 1588 days ago - boston.com
SAVANNAH, Ga.--Wind and choppy seas were frustrating efforts Friday to free an endangered right whale tangled in fishing gear as it swam from the Georgia coast into waters off Florida. Rescuers said their odds of freeing the 40-foot whale from the life-
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Whale Believed to Be Entangled in Fish Line
Animals  (tags: california, marine wildlife, whales, fishing line, entangled, endangered, extinction, habitat, humans, suffering, protection )

Jacquelin
- 1588 days ago - presstelegram.com
LONG BEACH - A whale believed to be entangled in fishing line has been spotted in the vicinity of the San Pedro Channel and wildlife officials today asked anyone who sees the whale to contact them immediately. The whale was last sighted Tuesday headin
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