{"id":953688,"date":"2026-10-31T23:12:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T23:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/953688\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T23:12:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T23:12:14","slug":"north-atlantic-right-whale-spotted-entangled-in-gear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/953688\/","title":{"rendered":"North Atlantic right whale spotted entangled in gear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Federal officials say they\u2019ve spotted a critically endangered North Atlantic right whale entangled in gear in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1793488332_147_70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Fisheries and Oceans Canada says a surveillance flight spotted the whale on Oct. 21 between New Brunswick\u2019s Acadian Peninsula, P.E.I. and Quebec\u2019s \u00celes-de-la-Madeleine.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1793488334_668_national.jpg\" alt=\"Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens so you won't miss a trending story.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tGet breaking National news<\/p>\n<p>Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens so you won&#8217;t miss a trending story.<\/p>\n<p>The department says the entanglement in the Bradelle Bank region wasn\u2019t spotted until scientists and experts reviewed footage this week.<\/p>\n<p>If the whale is located again, officials plan to tag the gear with a satellite tracker and try to disentangle the animal.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Environment<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The department says it has not been able to identify the whale or the type of gear it\u2019s caught in.<\/p>\n<p>The entire North Atlantic right whale population is estimated at just 384 animals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Federal officials say they\u2019ve spotted a critically endangered North Atlantic right whale entangled in gear in the Gulf&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":953689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,295,196478,66,278881,44315,323],"class_list":["post-953688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-right-whale","tag-science","tag-st-lawrence","tag-whale","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953688","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=953688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/953689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}