{"id":430788,"date":"2026-01-24T18:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T18:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/430788\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T18:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T18:46:08","slug":"fishermen-help-rescue-caribou-trapped-in-sea-ice-in-port-au-choix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/430788\/","title":{"rendered":"Fishermen Help Rescue Caribou Trapped in Sea Ice in Port au Choix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/caribou-back-up-on-solid-ice.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Fishermen Help Rescue Caribou Trapped in Sea Ice in Port au Choix\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A wet and exhausted caribou is back on all fours after running into trouble when it broke through the sea ice (via Brandon Gould on Facebook)<\/p>\n<p>A couple of fishermen from Port au Choix came to the rescue of a caribou that had broken through the sea ice and was struggling\u00a0in the water.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/caribou-in-trouble.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-290063\" class=\"size-full wp-image-290063\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/caribou-in-trouble.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-290063\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A caribou in trouble on the sea ice in Port au Choix (via Brandon Gould on Facebook)<\/p>\n<p>The animal couldn\u2019t get back up on the ice which kept breaking away, and it couldn\u2019t swim back to shore because of the surrounding ice.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/caribou-rescue.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-290064\" class=\"size-full wp-image-290064\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/caribou-rescue.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-290064\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A caribou rescue caught on camera in Port au Choix (via Brandon Gould on Facebook)<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s when Vernon Lavers and Milton Offrey jumped into action.\u00a0 They were able to break a path through the ice with their fishing boat to allow the\u00a0caribou to\u00a0get to the beach and back on all fours.<\/p>\n<p>Brandon Gould, who caught the whole incident on video, says despite her time in the water the caribou seemed to be none the\u00a0worse for wear.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe ran down the road, out over Cliff Rock,\u201d says Gould. \u201cShe seemed healthy enough.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; A wet and exhausted caribou is back on all fours after running into trouble when it broke&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,66,323],"class_list":["post-430788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430788","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=430788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}