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Collateral damage
Live bait fools more than just fish. This blue-footed booby was so weak he let me sit right next to him on the same rock. I was just about near enough
to grab him, but he jumped off. He evidently cannot swallow, is starving, and probably not long from death.
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That is so sad----
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And then, there are some wonderful folks that work very hard to right the wrong.
From today's Maui News-
Rescuers cut free tangled whale
The Maui News and The Associated Press
POSTED: December 8, 2009
WAILUKU - In what experts called a "textbook" whale rescue, a juvenile humpback was freed of hundreds of feet of plastic rope Sunday, officials from
the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary said Monday.
The U.S. Coast Guard located the whale by air Sunday morning, and a 47-foot motor lifeboat took rescuers and their Zodiac boat to its location between
Molokai and Oahu, officials said.
David Schofield, the sanctuary's marine mammal stranding response coordinator, said rescuers used old whaling techniques to slow and tire the whale,
enabling them to maneuver close enough to position equipment to cut the whale free.
Officials first slowed the whale by weighing it down with buoys and a sea anchor. Then they used a specially fashioned, 24-foot-long pole to position
a folding knife around the rope on the whale's back.
They attached a knife to another sea anchor and waited for the weight of the anchor to pull the knife through the rope. It came free in about 10
minutes.
''There was some uncertainty, but then all of a sudden the buoys fell still and the lines kind of spread apart and started to sink,'' Schofield said.
''There was jubilation. It was a really good feeling.''
Ed Lyman, the sanctuary's marine mammal response manager, said the rope could have killed the yearling whale because it may have interfered with its
feeding over time.
''We saved a whale from a life-threatening entanglement,'' he said.
Schofield said Lyman was part of a team that developed techniques for disentangling whales off the East Coast of the United States.
He said the work was started at 9:30 a.m. Sunday, and the whale was freed at 2:14 p.m.
Coast Guard Petty Officer Christopher Hyde said the whale was found by a Coast Guard helicopter crew between Molokai and Oahu, about 25 miles
southeast of Honolulu.
He said he was surprised how quickly the lines fell off the whale.
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Thanx Odd....Nice srory. ++C++ 
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tehag
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Stainless hook
Brandt's cormorant with a stainless future.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by tehag
Live bait fools more than just fish. This blue-footed booby was so weak he let me sit right next to him on the same rock. I was just about near enough
to grab him, but he jumped off. He evidently cannot swallow, is starving, and probably not long from death.
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what a shame.... I hope my fellow fishy nomads will read / see this and be careful with their gear. I went to barbless / catch and release fly
fishing a couple of decades ago... and then gave it up entirely. I've been planning to start substenance fishing again when we spend more time living
in Loreto ~ so this is a good reminder for me. Sometimes accidents like this happen, but we can at least try to manage our gear as respondibly as
possible.
Its all just stuff and some numbers.
A day spent sailing isn\'t deducted from one\'s life.
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bajamigo
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And then there was this sad juvenile trying to keep up with mom while wearing a pair of net buoys in his mouth. Fortunately, that was in San Ignacio
lagoon, where, hopefully, one of the many environmentalists there could and did extract the device. Sad, sad.
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shari
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If I may continue the highjack with another little whale story. In Ojo de Liebre, the baby whales sometimes got wrapped up in lobster trap lines. The
interesting thing is that all the whales we have managed to help by cutting off ropes & floats have stopped and floated on the
surface....seemingly knowing we were trying to help. They would remain still as we cut away the ropes....pretty cool eh.
I once saw a sea lion trying to bite off a rope wrapped around a baby gray's tale too!!!
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bajamigo
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That's no hijack. Shari. It's exactly yhe kind of thing I was hoping would happen with this poor little guy.
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Last year in BOLA we caught a blue foot booby trolling rebels. We slowly backed down on the booby, threw a towel over it's head and carefully holding
it, removed the barbless hook. Funny thing is that as soon as it took off it dived for the other lure bobbing in the water 50 feet behind the boat -
must be instinctual.
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Martyman
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Santiago;
Same thing happened to us. My buddy Tahm somehow got the hook out and released it. The booby was giving him a serious stink eye and seemed to be
saying " If you try anything else I will poke yer eye out with my 7" beak"
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