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
