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Article: CREWS WORK TO FREE ANOTHER RIGHT WHALE FROM ENTANGLING ROPES

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February 13, 2009
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 -- The U.S. Department of Commerce's National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration issued the following press release:

NOAA and its partners cut entangling ropes on another endangered North Atlantic right whale off the southeast United States earlier today - this time off northern Georgia.

"We expect the ropes to pull free, making this the third right whale we've disentangled in just eight weeks," said NOAA's Fisheries Service biologist Laura Engleby. "It is alarming, and with each event we look for clues to help us understand more about why and where these entanglements actually occur."

Experts have seen an unprecedented number of entangled right whales off the ...

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