Coordinated effort needed to stop whales getting tangled in ropes and nets, scientists say

At least 45 whales were entangled by fishing ropes and line on the east coast in 2024.
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'There’s a lot of times when we’ll get out to an entanglement where we just think, this animal should just probably be put to sleep,' says Sea World’s head of marine sciences, Wayne Phillips.
The constant drag of rope and floats slowly causes a whale to succumb to exhaustion. 'It’s probably the worst way of dying for any marine … animal,' marine scientist Olaf Meynecke, says. 'It takes weeks to several months until they actually die'
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