Bob Lynch stands on the bow of the Center for Coastal Studies’ response boat, Ibis, preparing to shoot a four-bladed crossbow arrow to cut the ropes entangling a female North Atlantic right whale known as Kleenex.
NOAA/NEFSC/LEAH CROWE / IMAGE COLLECTED UNDER MMPA RESEARCH PERMIT #17335
May 2nd, 2018 (Heather Goldstone). North Atlantic right whales are severely endangered, and entanglement in fishing gear is a leading cause of both deaths and low birth rates. A small Provincetown-based team tries to free as many whales as possible each year, but these efforts are dangerous and not a permanent solution.
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Exposing the Big Game 
May not save the species but helps individual whales. That’s important to me.
Me too.
“The primary culprits here in the northeast are the ropes that attach marker buoys to lobster or crab traps on the sea floor.”
“Guns don’t kill people, people kill people.” Somehow, though, ropes kill whales. Where the Hell is the National Rope Association to assure us that people kill whales through whatever activities that they carry-on with ropes, lines, nets, plastics, ships, etc.? We need enforceable regulations to protect people and whales, apparently.