Fisheries investigation after second deadly whale entanglement in B.C. waters
VANCOUVER — A necropsy has been completed on the latest humpback whale to be killed from being trapped underwater by fish-farm equipment off the British Columbia coast.
Results are not yet available, but Fisheries and Oceans Canada is investigating after a juvenile whale was entangled between the inner and outer containment nets of the Grieg Seafood facility in Nootka Sound, on the west coast of Vancouver Island.
A release from the Fisheries Department says the Nov. 25 incident marks the 21st whale entanglement this year, up from 10 to 15 recorded in a typical year.
It was also the second fatal entanglement in November, after a juvenile whale died in gear left at an unused Marine Harvest fish farm near Bella Bella on the central coast.