A video of an encounter with a live entangled Northern Bottlenose whale in the Gully, Nova Scotia, Canada, August 21, 1999.

• Main Author: Whitehead Lab (10317013)
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: 1999
• Subjects: Neuroscience; Biotechnology; Evolutionary Biology; Ecology; Inorganic Chemistry; Science Policy; Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified; Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified; Northern bottlenose whale; Entanglement; The Gully Marine Protected Area; Fisheries interactions; Hyperoodon ampullatus; Canada; The Gully; The Beak; hyperoodon ampullatus
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4606895

The video documents an encounter with a young northern bottlenose whale which was resting at the surface with a monofilament fishing line entangled in multiple wraps around the beak and across the blowhole and left side of the melon. The encounter occurred during research in the Gully by Dalhousie U...