Whales can become caught in rope that runs between shellfish creels on the seabed to a buoy on the surface. Trials have been done using "ropeless creels" which have the main line in a container along ...

Hal Whitehead, a marine biologist at Dalhousie University in Halifax, says videos of sperm whale carcasses, like the one taken in Newfoundland this week, can help scientists figure out where to ...

Volunteers remove remaining lengths of rope from the whale after it was found stranded on Monday A sperm whale that was entangled in ropes has died after it became stranded on a shore of the ...

Sperm whales are a deep-diving species and prey ... A humpback whale was freed from fish farm gear off Skye in January Since Christmas, the Scottish Entanglement Alliance (Sea) has recorded ...

Since Christmas, the Scottish Entanglement Alliance (Sea) has recorded five humpback entanglements - in addition to the ...