r/whales • u/phileo99 • 9d ago
A Female North Atlantic Right Whale and her calf found entangled in rope off Massachusetts, and the calf is likely to die from injuries
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-two-endangered-whales-found-entangled-in-rope-off-massachusetts-and/39
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u/Far-Scar9937 9d ago
Fishing trash really is the most depressing shit I have ever educated myself on in this life
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u/Vantriss 6d ago
I already hate humanity enough. I don't want to know more.
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u/ktc653 6d ago
If you stop eating seafood then you can ignore it, knowing you’re not contributing
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u/Vantriss 6d ago
But there's farm raised fish.
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u/ktc653 6d ago
They feed farmed fish wild caught fish so unfortunately it’s all part of the same system. And with some types of carnivorous fish, the amount of wild caught fish fed to the farmed fish actually exceeds the amount of farmed fish generated. https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/379564/fish-farming-sustainable-wild-caught
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u/Vantriss 6d ago
I mean... no matter what kind of meat you eat, there's something unethical going on and I'm not willing to be vegetarian. Just a cold hard fact of life.
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u/SurayaThrowaway12 8d ago
There are few things more frustrating than having well-documented and established manmade issues directly threatening a species/population with extinction that can be properly mitigated, and yet the species/population continues to decline due to the same issues. Also see the vaquita and the Southern Resident orcas.
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u/thiiiipppttt 7d ago
We're doing it to ourselves. What would be inconsistent about taking them with us?
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u/drilling_is_bad 8d ago
Small correction: 1 of the whales is a female of reproductive age--thankfully, her injuries are less severe and are not expected to lead to her death. Given that she is not in the southeast right now and wasn't an id-ed mother last year, I don't think she has a calf right now that would be affected. When I looked her up in the catalog, it doesn't look like she had ever been spotted with a calf. Her entanglement is bad, because she's less likely to give birth next year now and the entanglement could lead to infection, but less devastating overall.
NOAA update on the entanglements: https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/national/endangered-species-conservation/north-atlantic-right-whale-updates
List of 2023-2024 moms: https://www.neaq.org/2023-2024-right-whale-mother-and-calf-pairs/
Right whale catalog (female is #4120): https://rwcatalog.neaq.org/#/whales
Sadly, the juvenile male reported entangled is likely to die from his injuries, which ~is~ very bad news. But he's not the calf of 4120
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u/thiiiipppttt 7d ago
Not to shit on the feel goods, but for every heartwarming story we see about a whale rescued from fishing debris, there are thousands more we never know about.
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u/tangotango112 6d ago
The fishing industry is a cancer on sea life. They pollute the waters more than anyone. They have overfished and left nothing sustainable. They illegally dump their winch wires, spools, nets, draggers, other equipment and oil and don't give af which results in tons of sea life death. The CG barely do shit about it either. They're the biggest snowflakes when it comes to renewable energy projects like the Wind farms.
Fishing permit days are getting shorter and shorter, at least for the scallop industry. Fuck em, those fishing fleet owners are all trashy too.
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u/JungAtHeart_ 7d ago
And of course this is in Canadian news, NOT Massachusetts! I live in MA and haven’t seen anything about this
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u/One_Arm4148 9d ago
Damn it!!! Whyyyy?!?!? 💔😠Help them!