{"id":237156,"date":"2025-10-24T08:52:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T08:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/237156\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T08:52:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T08:52:10","slug":"plea-for-help-after-entangled-whale-spotted-off-east-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/237156\/","title":{"rendered":"Plea for help after entangled whale spotted off east coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasmania\u2019s Marine Conservation Program are calling for public assistance after reports of an entangled whale off the state\u2019s east coast.<\/p>\n<p>The six-metre whale was observed this afternoon near St Helens, moving southward with approximately 60 metres of rope and buoys trailing behind its body.<\/p>\n<p>The Marine Conservation Program has activated its response team and is urging the public to report any sightings to the whale hotline.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMembers of the public are asked to keep an eye out for this whale and report any sightings to the whale hotline on 0427 WHALES,\u201d a Marine Conservation Program spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"49527\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/pulsetasmania.com.au\/eea13764-bjm34tay6fp24be_bz29u\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/eea13764-bjm34tay6fp24be_bz29u.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1536,1024\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"eea13764-bjm34tay6fp24be_bz29u\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;The whale is moving southward with 60 metres of rope trailing behind. Image \/ File&lt;\/p&gt;&#10;\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/cdn.pulsetasmania.com.au\/images\/pmg\/eea13764-bjm34tay6fp24be_bz29u-300x200.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/cdn.pulsetasmania.com.au\/images\/pmg\/eea13764-bjm34tay6fp24be_bz29u-1024x683.jpg\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" class=\"size-full wp-image-49527\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/eea13764-bjm34tay6fp24be_bz29u.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\"  \/>The whale is moving southward with 60 metres of rope trailing behind. Image \/ File<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnyone who spots the whale is asked to accurately record its location and the direction it is heading and phone the hotline for further advice. If safe to take photos, please capture images.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhales are powerful animals capable of causing injury or death and the public should not attempt any rescue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur team has specialised equipment and staff are trained in nationally recognised techniques to carry out whale disentanglement.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tasmania\u2019s Marine Conservation Program are calling for public assistance after reports of an entangled whale off the state\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[64,63,128,338],"class_list":{"0":"post-237156","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}