Humpback whale tangled in 800kg of fishing equipment rescued off Gippsland coast
by Sharlotte Thou and Australian Associated Press from on (#6NX18)
Rescue operation run by specialised whale disentanglement crews cut off ropes and buoys to let it swim freely again
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A humpback whale that became tangled in 800kg of fishing equipment has been rescued off Victoria's Gippsland coast, almost a week after it was first seen to be in trouble, while in Queensland a whale was saved from a shark net.
The whale was spotted near Loch Sport in central Gippsland on Sunday 23 June by a commercial helicopter but then disappeared until Friday, when it was seen near Lake Tyers off the south-east coast.
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