The VHF radio call comes early in the morning. “I’ve spotted a mother humpback with a young one who’s dragging a bunch of nets or something,” the excited sport fisherman says. Immediately afterwards, the Coast Guard makes a call to the Marine Mammal Incident Reporting Hotline, the centre that manages reports on whale and other marine animal entanglements. In turn, the hotline quickly reaches Paul Cottrell, British Columbia’s only certified whale disentangler. In less than two hours after the sighting, […]

The post The Art and Science of Whale Disentanglement appeared first on British Columbia Magazine.