yesterday for 12 hours, struggling to breathe as ropes from an empty aquaculture site cut into its flesh and blubber. Marine Harvest workers discovered the entangled whale Monday morning and immediately called Fisheries and Oceans Canada, the company said in a statement. Paul Cottrell, DFO's marine mammal coordinator, caught the first plane from Vancouver to conduct the complicated rescue, with help from local fisheries officers, the company and members of the Kitasoo First Nation. Humpback rescued from fish farm ropes by fisheries officials0:48The team needed to cut at least four ropes to free the young whale, but that's not as quick and easy as it sounds. Anyone who sees a marine mammal dead or in distress is asked to call the marine mammal incident reporting hotline at 1-800-465-4336.

Source: CBC News September 13, 2016 23:50 UTC