Two Alaskans Postpone Thanksgiving to Rescue Whale Near Prince of Wales Island

By NOAA Fisheries-Alaska Regional Office on Nov 23, 2018   Featured, NOAA Fisheries and Alaska Fisheries Science Center, Southeast Alaska  

Members of NOAA’s North Pacific Large Whale Entanglement Response Team are thankful for Wednesday’s freeing of an entangled humpback whale in Sarkar Cove, north of Naukati on Prince of Wales Island, Alaska. NOAA received word of the possibly life-threatening entanglement on Tuesday, November 20. Dr. Fred Sharpe, an experienced member of the team and research […]