Blue Whale Entangled in Fishing Line Reported Sighted in Mexico Waters CBS News
go to original September 8, 2015

Blue Whale Entangled in Fishing Line Believed Near Mexico (wochit News)

A boat off the coast of Mexico apparently spotted the blue whale Monday that rescuers first saw several days ago entangled in hundreds of feet of fishing line near Los Angeles.

A blue whale trailing line and a red buoy was seen around 10:30 a.m. about 18 miles southwest of the Coronado Islands, according to Jim Milbury, a spokesman for the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Those Islands are off Tijuana, Baja California, and more than 100 miles south of where the whale was last seen Friday.

U.S. rescuers cannot work those waters but have been in contact with their Mexican counterparts, Milbury said.

..."There's not much we can do unless the whale turns north and comes back up," according to Milbury. He said his understanding was that Mexican rescuers from the group RABEN would need the whale to swim farther south to be able to help it.

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