Efforts underway to free entangled whale near Unalaska

Asia Beder, a whale entanglement expert, gathers underwater imagery near Unalaska where a humpback whale was reported entangled in fishing line on Monday, April 1, 2024.

The adult whale was first reported to be tangled on Monday afternoon in Iliuliuk Bay, said Julie Fair, a spokeswoman for NOAA Fisheries in Alaska. The bay is situated between Unalaska and Dutch Harbor. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game captured underwater footage of the whale on Tuesday afternoon, she said. Two whale entanglement experts flew into Dutch Harbor on Thursday morning from Juneau and Hawaii to plan how to help the whale, Fair said.

The experts were surveying the situation on Thursday and had a weather window through Saturday to get the animal untangled, Fair said.This is the first whale that’s been tangled in Alaska so far this year, but about 10 to 20 whales typically become entangled each year, Fair said.

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