The juvenile humpback was caught in a 'life-threatening' entanglement for at least three days before wildlife officials were able to cut it free.
A humpback whale was freed earlier this month from an entanglement that wildlife officials considered life-threatening in the Gulf of Alaska. The whale, a juvenile, was effectively 'hog-tied' for at least three days by 450 feet of heavy-duty line attached to an underwater crab pot weighing 300 pounds, the National Park Service said. Two local residents initially spotted the mammal on Oct.
'The Glacier Bay National Park entanglement response team was critical in this effort. They provided the vessel and staff to successfully evaluate the whale's condition and then deployed a team to disentangle the whale,' said Sadie Wright, a large whale entanglement response coordinator at the NOAA Fisheries regional office in Alaska, in a statement. The actual rescue operation happened Oct.
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