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Dear
colleagues We have
received info on bottlenose dolphin with net and rope entangled around
its
tail. After finding the animal we saw a big piece of rope and net
buried within
the caudal part of the animal’s body at the base of the tail. Animal
was
visibly exhausted from dragging this net probably additionally weighted
with
led weights on the rope. We tried to
approach the animal with boat and by snorkeling and scuba diving, but
the animal
was agitated and did not allow us to approach so after several hours of
unsuccessful
work we had to give up as sun was setting. We are
looking for advice on how the animal could be captured (currently we
are
looking for a purse seiner with small net that could set the net around
the
animal) and experiences/opinions for further potential rehabilitation.
I must
stress that we have no facilities for dolphin husbandry and are
planning to immediately
release the animal if that will be possible, but any serious reasons
not to do
it will be considered. Should you feel
appropriate, please
reply to my private email [email protected]
not to burden the list. Pictures of the dolphin can be seen on http://www.plavi-svijet.org/hr/znanost/lamjana/
Thank you
for your fast replies, Drasko
Holcer -- Draško Holcer, president Blue World Institute of Marine Research and Conservation Kaštel 24, HR-51551 Veli Lošinj, Croatia tel +385 51 604666 fax +385 51 604668 mbl +385 91 4637424 Internet: www.blue-world.org e-mail [email protected] |
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