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Whale Rescue

Preview A team works to free a one-year-old right whale from fishing ropes wrapped and knotted around its body and flippers.
(Katie Jackson/Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission)
A team from the Center for Coastal Studies works to free a one-year-old right whale from the fishing ropes wrapped and knotted around its body and flippers. The whale is Kingfisher, #3346 in the North American Right Whale Catalog.