The Vancouver Aquarium Marine Mammal Rescue Society, which sent rescuers to the ecological preserve off Metchosin on Oct. 22, described the situation as “gut wrenching.”
An adult male sea lion with gill netting so deeply embedded around its mouth and neck that it was starving was rescued on Race Rocks this month.
“The sea lion hadn’t been able to eat for what could have been weeks or even months,” Akhurst said. “We knew we had to act fast. … This was one of the most heartbreaking but rewarding rescues I’ve been a part of.” It took 75 minutes for the the team to carefully remove the netting from around the animal’s neck, face and mouth. The netting was embedded so deeply that surgical scissors were required to cut away the entanglement.
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