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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | November 2005 
Mexican Navy, Fishermen Save Hump Whale
 CBS News
| | After almost 10 hours of work, fishermen and members of the Mexican Navy were able to disentangle the whale's tail from the net. |
Zihuatanejo, Mexico - A 32-foot long hump whale was saved by Mexican fishermen after becoming trapped in a set of fishing nets near the coast of Zihuatanejo.
After almost 10 hours of work, fishermen and members of the Mexican Navy were able to disentangle the whale's tail from the net.
They released the animal into the south east Mexico bay of Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo.
The chief of ecologic surveillance, Armando Encarnacion, said the whale's tail was slightly damaged in the ordeal.
Hump whales, which migrate south from Alaska in a yearly voyage to the southern Mexican Pacific in search of warmer waters, are vulnerable to illegal fishing techniques.
Fishermen often leave their fishing nets out illegally, letting them drift in the south eastern Mexican waters, especially in the bay of Ixtapa.
Environmentalists insist the Mexican government should ban the fishing lines, saying this is a non-selective way of fishing which catches all sorts of species of sea-life indiscriminately.
Hump whales migrating from Alaska in search of breeding grounds, give birth to their offspring on Mexico's Pacific coast.
The whales return to Alaska at the end of March. |
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