once again, Trawl nets show how harmful they can be to marine fauna and the cruel and slow death they cause to many animals. those who come across them. Thousands of abandoned nets (other than active ones) have been a death trap for years and decades at the bottom of the sea, and there are more and more. Now, when the humpback whale was dying, it was wrapped in one of these nets and released into the waters of Mallorca.
Thanks to the warning given by the sailboat crewMobilizing local diving clubs and experts from the Palma Aquarium, he was able to set up an operation that sailed to the animal’s location, near Punta de n’Amer, a mile off the coast of Mallorca.
Pedro Riera, the author of the images accompanying these lines, points out that the whale is completely wrapped in nets that prevent it from moving because it cannot activate its fully closed pectoral fins. He couldn’t even wag his tail. All this sentenced him to death soon after.
Along an hour-and-a-half operationThe divers were able to free the whale from the nets, which were pressing first against its head and then against the rest of its body.
“At first the whale was a little restless, but then he let the net be pulled. He understood that they were helping him,” said Pedro Riera.
The photographer and diver told local media that the animal’s “couldn’t get out to breathe, could barely move. It was mouth to tail. From time to time he would move a little for air, he would, and then he would sink two or three meters again. He repeated this effort from time to time. It was the only thing that could be done to survive.”
The river points to such situations are unfortunately common in balearic waters in the case of sea turtles and medium-sized marine mammals. As for the whales, they are often seen stranded on the shores and already dead, but the islands were shocked to see the agony this great animal endured because of abandoned nets.
The proliferation of these ‘killer networks’as it is also called, they have long been the target of protests, and although activities are periodically carried out to remove some of them from the seafloor, their quantity is so great that they continue to pose a deadly trap for marine fauna.
This is one of the reasons why a complete ban on trawling is demanded, at least in marine protected areas.
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Source: Informacion
