Mother and baby whale trapped in shark net off Queensland’s Rainbow Beach
by Nick Visser from World news | The Guardian on (#70BFW)
The humpback whales, which were caught in a net 245km north of Brisbane, were among nine whale entanglements in past nine days
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Two humpback whales, a mother and her calf, were entangled in a shark net off Queensland's Rainbow Beach on Saturday, prompting urgent calls to rescue officials from members of the public.
The state's Department of Primary Industries (DPI) said it heard reports of the entanglements just before 6am and members with the agency's shark control program and marine animal release team (MART) were on the scene at Rainbow Beach, about 245km north of Brisbane, around 10.30am to start work on freeing the animals.
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