{"id":224689,"date":"2019-07-27T12:13:16","date_gmt":"2019-07-27T16:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=224689"},"modified":"2019-07-27T12:13:16","modified_gmt":"2019-07-27T16:13:16","slug":"officials-say-search-for-entangled-whale-continues-in-nova-scotia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/07\/27\/officials-say-search-for-entangled-whale-continues-in-nova-scotia\/","title":{"rendered":"Officials say search for entangled whale continues in Nova Scotia"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_224691\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-224691\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Officials-say-search-for-entangled-whale-continues-in-Nova-Scotia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-224691\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Officials-say-search-for-entangled-whale-continues-in-Nova-Scotia.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"612\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Officials-say-search-for-entangled-whale-continues-in-Nova-Scotia.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Officials-say-search-for-entangled-whale-continues-in-Nova-Scotia-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Officials-say-search-for-entangled-whale-continues-in-Nova-Scotia-768x490.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-224691\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Researchers estimate there are about 400 right whales left worldwide. (Pixabay file photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Department of Fisheries and Oceans says a whale rescue team removed some rope from an entangled North Atlantic right whale that is moving towards Nova Scotia.<\/p>\n<p>The department says the Whale Release and Strandings, a non-profit organization from Newfoundland and Labrador, has been working since Wednesday to disentangle right whale number 3125.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday the team cut a line of rope off the whale, but the animal remains entangled.<\/p>\n<p>The department says the whale is moving into waters east of Nova Scotia and the rescue team is determining the best course of action.<\/p>\n<p>The whale was first spotted on July 4 with rope wrapped around it by Transport Canada just east of the Gaspe Peninsula in Quebec.<\/p>\n<p>Philip Hamilton, a researcher at the New England Aquarium, says the animal is in a challenging entanglement and will be difficult to free.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers estimate there are about 400 right whales left worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Eight right whales died in Canadian waters in 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Fisheries and Oceans says a whale rescue team removed some rope from an entangled North Atlantic right &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":224691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","category-news","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224692,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224689\/revisions\/224692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}