Planning next bid to rescue orca calf near Zeballos will take ‘few days’: Fisheries Department
The Department of Fisheries says planning for a new attempt to rescue an orca calf trapped in a Vancouver Island lagoon will be finalized in the next few days but no date has been set.
Rescuers, who include members of the Ehattesaht First Nation, say a change in tactics may be needed, possibly including an attempt to net the whale in a deeper section of the lagoon. The whale has been trapped alone in the tidal lagoon near Zeballos, 450 kilometres northwest of Victoria, since March 23, when her mother became stranded and died.
The Fisheries Department said on Saturday the plan was to coax the calf into the shallows, “put her in a sling, and transfer her by truck onto a landing barge which would transport her the 19 kilometres to the open ocean for release.” “That did not deter her for very long,” said Haulena. “It does appear like she has been getting quite used to the noise, to the boats and the pipe.“There are a lot of moving parts to organize in such a complex operation,” Fisheries Department spokeswoman Lara Sloan said in a statement.
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