{"id":169643,"date":"2025-09-26T02:18:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T02:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/169643\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T02:18:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T02:18:08","slug":"video-humpback-whale-freed-from-over-450-feet-of-fishing-gear-near-nanoose-bay-nanaimonewsnow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/169643\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Humpback whale freed from over 450 feet of fishing gear near Nanoose Bay | NanaimoNewsNOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758347900_436_indicator-big.gif\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Wiggins, and his companion Fader, were spotted on Sunday, Sept. 21 by staff on board a Vancouver Island Whale Watch vessel out on the water.<\/p>\n<p>They alerted DFO who dispatched a team to attach a tracking chip to the equipment, however the rescue effort was delayed until more suitable weather conditions materialized.<\/p>\n<p>Staff tracked the animals as they planned the rescue, before finally being able to work alongside the whale throughout much of Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDebris is a real problem for marine wildlife,\u201d the DFO statement read. \u201cThe public can help prevent entanglements by cutting packing material, banding, rope and other looped material before disposing of it, and by not be disposing of these materials in the marine environment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those on the water are also required to report any lost gear to DFO through the <a href=\"https:\/\/gg-ef.dfo-mpo.gc.ca\/en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fishing Gear Reporting System<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Video: Fisheries and Oceans Canada<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our daily news wrap. <a href=\"https:\/\/nanaimonewsnow.com\/news-wrap\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Local news delivered to your email inbox every evening.<\/a> Stay up to date on everything Nanaimo and Oceanside.<\/p>\n<p>info@nanaimonewsnow.com<\/p>\n<p>Follow us on: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitter.com\/nanaimonewsnow\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter (X)<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/nanaimonewsnow.bsky.social\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bluesky<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/everythingnanaimo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wiggins, and his companion Fader, were spotted on Sunday, Sept. 21 by staff on board a Vancouver Island&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[879,49,48,2467,2461,2468,2460,2462,2463,44,2464,2465,2466,66,82,323],"class_list":["post-169643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-breaking-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-central-vancouver-island","tag-nanaimo","tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","tag-nanaimo-news","tag-nanaimo-news-now","tag-nanaimonewsnow","tag-news","tag-oceanside","tag-parksville","tag-qualicum","tag-science","tag-sports","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}