Michael Moore, veterinary scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, describes fishing ropes as “a whale trap.” “Essentially, the vertical lines from these gear types become like ...

The clip shows an orange-looking octopus with its long tentacles spread across a fishing trap that is slowly being pulled up from the ocean. A woman can be heard on the 23-second video exclaiming ...

A humpback whale, which died on a NSW mid-north coast beach, had dragged a fishing trap and ropes more than 1,700 kilometres before it met its end. Beaches along the Port Macquarie coast are ...