Glad these people had better luck.
The humpback whale Ebony was viewed by whale watchers on the vessel Yankee Spirit before being disentangled by a rescue crew yesterday off Race Point in Provincetown. (PCCS photo, NOAA permit 932-1489)
"Fund cuts endanger whales' rescuers; Disentangle team busy while facing own constrictions" by Neil Munshi, Globe Correspondent | July 9, 2008
I've said it once, I've said it a million times: WE GOT TRILLIONS for occupations and BILLIONS for banks and Israel, and yet we have NOTHING for LIFE!!!!
And HERE IT IS AGAIN!
Up to 70 percent of all North Atlantic humpback and endangered right whales have been entangled by commercial fishing gear at some point, according to the Provincetown Center.
Now, the center's whale rescues are endangered, too.
Since the whale rescue program began in 1984, the nonprofit group has received about $450,000 in federal funding annually, said Richard Delaney, the center's executive director. But in October, when the next federal fiscal year begins, it will be operating on $94,000, he said, enough to cover just three months of rescues.
You KNOW WHY THAT IS, right, readers?
ALL the $$$ is going for WARS and WAR PROFITEERS!!!!
Teri Frady, spokeswoman for the National Marine Fisheries Service, said Delaney's group is caught in Congress's budgetary stalemate. She said that when the 2009 budget is finalized, it is "unlikely there would be no disentanglement funding." But given the funding crunch, she worries the program, which helps save whales up and down the East Coast, will fold.
Ah, to hell with the whales anyway, huh?
Maybe we ought to start EATING THEM, no?
NOT ME!
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The center will still continue to provide research and educational opportunities through public and private grants, as well as individual donations, Delaney said.
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