An entangled North Atlantic right whale that crews tried to disentangle from fishing gear off the northeastern coast of New Brunswick earlier this year was spotted this week with a calf.
Snow Cone, born in 2005, was sighted with a newborn in the waters off Cumberland Island, Ga., by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission aerial crew on Dec. 2.
The sighting hits close to home for New Brunswickers, who made several attempts to disentangle the mother in May.
“I was extremely shocked,” said Mackie Greene with the Campobello Whale Rescue team.
Greene was one of the rescuers working to free
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