AR-News: Abandoned net traps, kills seals, other wildlife

[jim robertson]

Abandoned net traps, kills seals, other wildlife

SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER STAFF

An abandoned gillnet that may have been floating in Chuckanut Bay near 
Bellingham for at least a month was found with three dead seals, crabs and a 
cormorant inside.

Myron Hawkins and other officers with the state Department of Fish and 
Wildlife retrieved the net Saturday afternoon near Chuckanut Rock. The net 
was floating on the surface but caught below the water, possibly on a rock.

Kayaker Jim Green reported the fishing net to the Coast Guard after finding 
it adrift Friday between Dot Island and a rocky outcropping in Chuckanut 
Bay. Hawkins said neighbors told him that the net was in the water for 
nearly a month.

"But this was the first time that anyone had seen fit to do something about 
it," Hawkins said.


http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/140973_tl124.html


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to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
-- Albert Einstein

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