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20 years since the rescue of J.J. the gray whale

Today is Marine Mammal Rescue Day! We are grateful to all of our partners who help us coordinate rescue efforts for marine mammals in distress, like this team who recently helped an adult gray whale entangled in a gillnet off Southern California’s Palos Verdes Peninsula. They used aerial drones and underwater cameras to document the entanglement. They found the net was tightly wrapped around the whale’s peduncle. The net had caught on a rock crab trap on the bottom, tying the whale in place. Aft