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Crews Try To Free Young Right Whale Found Entangled In Cape Cod Bay
"The whale sped off with wraps of rope around its tail," the center said in a statement.
CBS Boston
January 21, 2026
A rescue team worked to free a young, critically endangered North Atlantic right whale that was found entangled in fishing gear in Cape Cod Bay over the weekend.
The Center for Coastal Studies said a Plymouth, Massachusetts resident who was watching whales through a spotting scope on Saturday alerted them that a whale was dragging a buoy.
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The center's Marine Animal Entanglement Response team left Provincetown by boat the same day and found the year-old whale with fishing rope wrapped around its tail. Bad weather conditions prevented the team from helping the whale immediately, but they attached a tracking device to the rope.
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