OLD PERLICAN, N.L.—A rescue group says there is nothing it can do to help a whale trapped in the icy waters off Newfoundland. Whale Release and Strandings says the ice in Cook’s Cove near Old Perlican, N.L., is too thick to navigate with an icebreaker and they wouldn’t be able to euthanize the distressed animal. “There is nothing that can be done to assist unless the wind changes and frees the ice in the cove,” the group wrote in a Facebook post Saturday. “Please respect the animal in the situation it has found itself and do not attempt to touch the animal but just to leave it.”Mary Lou Riggs says the humpback has been stranded in the shallow waters near the shore since Friday and has been crying “like a baby.”“He was jammed right in there and couldn’t even move,” says Riggs. “There’s a lot of blood on the ice, and they say it’s from his tail.”

Source: thestar April 02, 2017 17:48 UTC