Fishing Vessel Helps Free Severely Entangled Humpback Whale Off Oregon Coast; Jaw Permanently Open, Likely Won’t Survive
An Oregon team joined by experts from Washington and a local fisherman freed a severely entangled humpback whale about 20 miles off the Oregon Coast on July 26. While the team removed all of the gear from the whale, the entanglement left the young whale’s jaw permanently open, leaving it unable to feed and unlikely…