Pork? Or blubber? $500k Cleared For Federal Whale Disentanglement Program
An Entangled Humpback Whale Near Alaska
Whale rescuers in Provincetown, Mass. received $500,000 in funding via President Obama’s omnibus appropriations bill. This came as a relief to The Atlantic Large Whale Disentanglement program, which finished 2008 a quarter million dollars in the hole. Even with the influx of cash, they will still have to operate with 3, instead of 5, rescuers.
The program has rescued over 100 whales and believes that the cash will allow them to operate uninterrupted for the foreseeable future.
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