{"id":608493,"date":"2026-05-28T13:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T13:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/608493\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T13:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T13:00:08","slug":"humpback-whales-breath-taking-breach-stuns-brixham-fisherman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/608493\/","title":{"rendered":"Humpback whale&#8217;s &#8216;breath-taking&#8217; breach stuns Brixham fisherman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Devon Wildlife Trust Marine Awareness Office Coral Smith said humpbacks were now a &#8220;fairly common&#8221; sight and the whale in the video looked like a juvenile. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Smith warned all watercraft should maintain a safe and respectful distance away from marine mammals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Whales, dolphins and porpoises are legally protected and is therefore illegal to intentionally or recklessly disturb them,&#8221; she said.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Anyone who observes harassment should call the police. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She added: &#8220;You can see in one video the humpback became briefly entangled in creel line.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Unfortunately this is another all too common threat, particularly for humpbacks.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Devon Wildlife Trust Marine Awareness Office Coral Smith said humpbacks were now a &#8220;fairly common&#8221; sight and the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-608493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}