Rescuers Try to Lure Stranded Humpback Whale Through Dam
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A humpback whale trapped for more than a week behind a hydroelectric dam refused the latest attempt Monday to lure him back to the ocean. Whale rescuers used the recorded sounds of feeding humpbacks to try to coax the 16 1/2 ton animal through the sluice gates that separate the Annapolis River from the Atlantic Ocean.
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By Michael Dinan, The Stamford Advocate, Conn.  Jun. 26--GREENWICH -- Michael Aurelia raised a dripping net of a baby alewives from a pool of the Mianus River Dam's fishway, examined them, then dumped the silver fish back into the water and pulled out a partially submerged crate.
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Encouraged by the response of two injured, wayward whales to the spray of a fire hose, marine scientists plan to use more hoses when they resume efforts next week to herd the pair back out to the Pacific Ocean.
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The Coast Guard was searching Thursday night for a 52-foot fishing vessel with two crew members on board after detecting a distress signal, officials said.
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By JOSEPH B. FRAZIER  CASCADE LOCKS, Ore. - Above the spillways of Bonneville Dam, Darrell Schmidt patroled with his shotgun, drawing a bead on furry brown California sea lion heads popping up from the Columbia River and blasting off a beanbag round.
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The unusually swollen tongue of a dead humpback whale may indicate that it perished after colliding with a ship in the waters of southeast Alaska, scientists said Monday.
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Two whales lost in the Sacramento River were spotted Tuesday morning just beyond a bridge where they had stopped a day earlier, a delay that worried scientists hoping to get them back to the ocean
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Two humpback whales that swam from the Pacific Ocean far up into central California&#39;s inland waterways appear to be heading back toward open ocean, wildlife officials said on Tuesday.
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An operation is under way to rescue the crew of a burning fishing boat off the coast of Donegal.
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Rescuers succeeded in freeing a minke whale that washed up on a beach in southeastern Brazil, the fire department said Thursday.
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A fresh attempt to rescue an injured ship's captain is under way, after being abandoned in "extreme" conditions.
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Two lost whales last spotted near the Golden Gate Bridge may have slipped back into the Pacific Ocean after a two-week sojourn that took them 90 miles inland up the Sacramento River, scientists said Wednesday.
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More than two weeks after they were first spotted far up the Sacramento River, two lost humpback whales appeared to have found their way home Wednesday.
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A search is being made around Maria Island on Tasmania&#39;s east coast to see if there have been any further whale and dolphin strandings.
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The blue whale, once on the verge of extinction, is making a comeback.
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A humpback whale is satellite tagged for the first time in the waters of the South Pacific - to learn about its movements.
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With bulldozers threatening small carnivores north of New Orleans, volunteers headed to the rescue Saturday.