{"id":792893,"date":"2026-07-10T13:57:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T13:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/792893\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T13:57:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T13:57:10","slug":"whale-release-group-frees-humpback-tangled-in-fishing-gear-in-trinity-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/792893\/","title":{"rendered":"Whale Release Group Frees Humpback Tangled in Fishing Gear in Trinity Bay"},"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\/07\/stranded-whale-trinity.png\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Whale Release Group Frees Humpback Tangled in Fishing Gear in Trinity Bay\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo via Facebook \/<br \/>\nTrinity Eco-Tours)<\/p>\n<p>The Whale Release and Strandings Group spent an exhausting day in Trinity Bay yesterday, freeing a heavily entangled humpback from layers of fishing gear.<\/p>\n<p>Sea of Whales Adventures spotted the creature in Trinity Bight earlier this week and alerted the rescue group.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Julie Huntington says they arrived on Wednesday, but the conditions on the water were too rough to take action.<\/p>\n<p>She says they couldn\u2019t find the whale when they set out on Thursday, but it was eventually located by Trinity Eco Tours near Horse Chops.<\/p>\n<p>Huntington says the whale was caught up in two gill nets, with its head tied to its tail. She says the effort to free the animal took hours and took a toll on their equipment.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>She says the whale was entangled in new gear and some older gear that had obviously been in the water for some time.<\/p>\n<p>Huntington says the whale did not appear to know when it was finally freed, as its movements were limited.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe whale didn\u2019t know that it was free,\u201d says Huntington. \u201cIt just didn\u2019t move like a whale; it just was going up and down. We\u2019re hoping that in a couple of days it will regain its mobility and move on.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; (Photo via Facebook \/ Trinity Eco-Tours) The Whale Release and Strandings Group spent an exhausting day in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":792894,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,269876,185074,269873,66,269875,269877,269874,269870,269871,269872,323],"class_list":["post-792893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-listen-to-vocm","tag-news-radio","tag-news-radio-st-johns","tag-science","tag-st-johns-fm-radio","tag-st-johns-local-radio","tag-st-johns-radio-station","tag-vocm","tag-vocm-590","tag-vocm-radio","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792893","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=792893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/792894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}