Monday 12 August 2013

Wollongong Harbour



A nasty incident was avoided today when Australian Seabird Rescue Team member Betty caught a  beautiful  female pelican. With fishing line caught around her wing. As we carried her up the beach fishing line came trailing behind her - 60 meters of it!! Imagine if this had become tangled around power lines when she was in flight. She would have been left dangling and struggling from the lines.
How would we have rescued her? One can imagine several equally horrific scenarios. Happily she was released unharmed with a belly full of fish as compensation. Fishing folk take note: Discard Fishing Line Thoughtfully.

Gillian