US bars people from disentangling whales after Canadians death

[jpak]

Source: Bangor Daily News

U.S. officials are temporarily barring anyone from approaching an entangled whale after a Canadian fisherman was killed trying to free one in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

Joe Howlett, a fisherman from Campobello, was struck by a North Atlantic right whale on July 10, moments after he and other responders had freed it from fishing gear near Shippagan, New Brunswick, on the province’s northeast coast.

“Because ensuring the safety of responders is of paramount importance, NOAA Fisheries is suspending all large whale entanglement response activities nationally until further notice, in order to review our own emergency response protocols in light of this event,” said Chris Oliver, assistant administrator for the fisheries division of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Marine mammals are protected under federal law, which means it is illegal to harass or harm them. Exceptions are made for properly trained people who are pre-approved by NOAA to respond to entanglements or strandings. By suspending entanglement responses, NOAA temporarily is banning anyone from approaching or trying to free an entangled whale.

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[secondwind]

1. If they are protected under federal law, shouldn't we help them?

[FailureToCommunicate]

2. That ruling is unfortunate. And this guy was no amateur...

"More than 15 years ago, the Canadian lobster fisherman co-founded the Campobello Whale Rescue Team, an “intrepid group of fishermen who care so much about whales that they are willing to risk their lives to save them.”

https://bangordailynews.com/2017/07/12/news/nation/a-man-freed-a-whale-from-a-fishing-net-then-it-killed-him-friends-say/?ref%3DmoreInstate

[DK504]

3. Go fuck yourself Wildlife/Fisheries.

Since you won't protect animals we have to.

[Sunlei]

5. Wildlife/Fisheries- TAG THE DAMN NETS & 2 mile thousand hook lines so the "fishermen" can be caught

and fined for letting their CRAP kill Sea life.

[Sunlei]

4. They will help the whales and dolphins and other wildlife anyway. Because our "official' wildlife

agencies like parks & wildlife just kill or let die a slow horrible death any wildlife they come across.

[Bayard]

6. A noble way to die.....

[turbinetree]

7. I guess the new Interior Department navy seal asshole in charge of this

hasn't figured out that whales, yes whales, help give us oxygen to live on this planet, but this navy seal asshole cannot and will not sit down and read what I just said to fully understand what I mean by planet commingling

Fuck Him, if I see a whale trapped and dying in a fucking death trap net, I am going to do something to help the whale, if can't just pull over and take off the net------------------