{"id":954476,"date":"2026-11-01T15:26:18","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T15:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/954476\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T15:26:18","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T15:26:18","slug":"endangered-north-atlantic-right-whale-entangled-in-gear-spotted-in-the-gulf-of-st-lawrence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/954476\/","title":{"rendered":"Endangered North Atlantic right whale entangled in gear spotted in the Gulf of St. Lawrence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"display:block\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/resizer\/v2\/P7BZPBNTOFDKLDSMFSOMTHSW6M.jpg?auth=8e69221938e71f5fbc7941bb5383ac5f048ea1a1ac704d60cf8b6b7e217cffd2&amp;width=600&amp;height=400&amp;quality=80&amp;smart=true\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" data-photo-viewer-index=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Open this photo in gallery:<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"figcap-text\">A North Atlantic right whale surfaces on Cape Cod Bay in Massachusetts, March 27, 2023.Robert F. Bukaty\/The Associated Press<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">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 class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">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 class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">The department says the entanglement in the Bradelle Bank region wasn\u2019t spotted until scientists and experts reviewed footage this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">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 class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">The department says it has not been able to identify the whale or the type of gear it\u2019s caught in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">The entire North Atlantic right whale population is estimated at just 384 animals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: A North Atlantic right whale surfaces on Cape Cod Bay in Massachusetts, March&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":954477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[901,888,902,879,877,903,49,48,876,895,896,891,878,875,46,549,295,894,887,914,880,881,893,889,890,884,904,885,909,910,912,907,911,905,908,882,898,899,714,897,906,66,865,61,900,892,886,883,913],"class_list":["post-954476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-science","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954476","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=954476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/954477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}