Killer whale freed near Salt Spring, B.C., puts on ‘show’ for rescuers
VANCOUVER — A killer whale has been rescued from some fishing gear off Vancouver Island, and one marine mammal specialist says the freed orca delighted his rescuers by putting on a show.
Paul Cottrell with Fisheries and Oceans Canada says his team got a call early Thursday morning after a Salt Spring Island resident spotted a buoy being dragged around by a northeast Pacific transient killer whale .
Rescuers from Vancouver went out to help and arrived to find the adult male orca caught in some commercial prawn-fishing gear.
Cottrell says the team put some tension on the buoy the animal was attached to and the orca rolled out of the entanglement.