7/15/2017
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has chose to halt large whale entanglement rescue efforts after accidental death of a ...
(Newser) – The US and Canada are suspending their official efforts to free North Atlantic right whales tangled in fishing lines after the death of a ...
Joe Howlett, a well-known emergency responder, who founded a team of whale rescuers based in Canada's Campobello Island, which is located ...
The death of whale rescuer Joe Howlett prompted the US Atmospheric and Oceanic Agency (NOAA) to impose a suspension of rescue operations on ...
A veteran whale rescuer was killed by the whale he was trying to rescue from commercial fishing gear on Monday, and now the National Oceanic and ...
Just spoke with Howlett's friend and longtime whale rescue partner. He says people are crying and then laughing when they remember Joe.
The United States is temporarily halting efforts to rescue large whales trapped in fishing gear after the death of a Canadian fisherman this week.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's whale rescue efforts have been temporarily put on hold, following the death of a longtime ...
Howlett, 59, the co-founder of the Campobello Whale Rescue Team, died Monday after freeing a whale from snow crab lines near Shippagan.
"Joe definitely would not want us to stop because of this. This is something he loved and there's no better feeling than getting a whale untangled, and I ...
Canadian veteran fisherman Joe Howlett, 59, was part of a rescue team untangling a whale caught in a fishing gear Monday in Canada's Gulf of St.
7/14/2017
The NOAA has suspended large whale disentanglement efforts after the accidental death of a veteran rescuer. The North Atlantic right whale is an ...
MEMBERS of the marine community in the US and Canada said this week a Canadian fisherman who died freeing a whale from fishing gear was a ...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced Friday it is halting efforts to free whales trapped in fishing lines after a ...
After a noted emergency responder died in rescuing an endangered right whale, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says it's ...
(The Canadian Press) — Federal officials are halting efforts to free North Atlantic right whales trapped in fishing gear, following the recent death of a ...
Before his tragic death, Joe Howlett had worked for 15 years to rescue whales entangled or trapped in fishing gear.
MAGDALEN ISLANDS, Que. - The death of a whale rescuer in New Brunswick has prompted a federal review into how the Fisheries Department ...
7/13/2017
MAGDALEN ISLANDS, Que. – Federal officials are halting efforts to free North Atlantic right whales trapped in fishing gear following the recent death ...
A Canadian fisherman died Monday during a whale rescue mission to disentangle an endangered North Atlantic Right whale caught in fishing lines off ...
FILE - In this April 10, 2008, file photo, a North Atlantic right whale dives in Cape Cod Bay near Provincetown, Mass. The U.S. National Oceanic and ...
Federal officials are halting efforts to free North Atlantic right whales trapped in fishing gear following the recent death of a whale rescuer in New ...
With few natural enemies, one of the largest dangers to whales is getting tangled in fishing gear. Evan Henerberry, Assistant Stranding Coordinator for ...
MAGDALEN ISLANDS, Que. -- Federal officials are halting efforts to free North Atlantic right whales trapped in fishing gear following the recent death ...
MAGDALEN ISLANDS, Que. -- Federal officials are halting efforts to free large whales trapped in fishing gear following the recent death of a whale ...
Federal fishing regulators are suspending whale disentanglement efforts in the U.S. following the death earlier this week by a lobstermen from ...
MAGDALEN ISLANDS, Que. — Federal officials are halting efforts to free large whales trapped in fishing gear following the recent death of a whale ...
A whale killed a man from Canada who worked to rescue the animal from being entangled by fishing nets. The man, Joe Howlett, was the founder of ...
Dedicated whale rescuer Joe Howlett was struck and killed Monday by a North Atlantic right whale that he helped free. The critically endangered ...
Joe Howlett, the courageous fisherman who was fatally struck Monday by a right whale that he helped to free in Canadian waters, often worked with ...
Joe Howlett was killed Monday after freeing a North Atlantic right whale that had been entangled in fishing gear off New Brunswick. A close friend of ...
Joe Howlett, the Canadian fisherman who died last week rescuing a whale from a net, has gotten resounding praise and tributes for the selfless act ...
Hopefully, his tombstone says something to that effect because Joe Howlett, a Canadian crab fisherman by trade turned whale rescuer, certainly lived ...
In this file photo, researchers examine a dead North Atlantic right whale along the Gulf of St. Lawrence in Canada. North Atlantic right whales are ...
Two separate investigations have been launched into the death of whale rescuer Joe Howlett and the related entanglement of the North Atlantic right ...
A Canadian man who had worked for years to free dozens of entangled whales was killed soon after helping cut one loose, the Canadian government ...
An endangered whale killed an anti-whaling activist who attempted to free the animal from a net, according to Canadian officials. Lobster fisherman ...
U.S. officials are temporarily barring anyone from approaching an entangled whale after a Canadian fisherman was killed trying to free one in the Gulf ...
The New England Aquarium is mourning the loss of a research partner who was killed Monday by a right whale he had just helped free from an ...
Joe Howlett, a lobsterman, boat captain, and certified whale disentanglement expert, had worked previously as the captain of the M/V Shelagh, ...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. fisheries regulator is suspending efforts to free whales tangled in fishing line after a Canadian rescuer was killed by a ...
In response to Howlett's death, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is suspending whale rescues, stating: “Members of the general ...
Howlett, 59, was killed Monday trying to disentangle a North Atlantic Right Whale off the coast of New Brunswick, according to a statement from ...
7/12/2017
More than 15 years ago, the Canadian lobster fisherman co-founded the Campobello Whale Rescue Team, an “intrepid group of fishermen who care ...
The fisherman was on board a Canadian boat when the whale swam away from the rope and “responded in a way that ultimately killed Joe”.
On Monday, lobster fisherman and whale rescuer Joe Howlett was cutting a North Atlantic right whale free from a net when the whale tried to swim ...
He was on board a Canadian government vessel when the whale swam away from the rope and "responded in a way that ultimately killed Joe".
CAMPOBELLO ISLAND, N.B. — A fisherman known for rescuing whales tangled in fishing lines and nets was killed on Monday, moments after freeing ...
A Canadian man died Monday attempting to save a critically endangered whale that was caught in some fishing lines in the Gulf of St Lawrence.
A North Atlantic right whale, the species that killed Howlett, is seen in this file photo. The whales can reach a length of over 50 feet and weight more ...
Joe Howlett, a lobster fisherman from Campobello Island, New Brunswick, pictured here with his son, Tyler. Howlett was killed after he freed a whale ...
A U.S. agency that responds to marine mammals in distress has halted its efforts to free large whales trapped in fishing gear following the recent death ...
File photo: A young southern right whale (L), known in Spanish as ballena franca austral, swims in the waters of the Atlantic Sea, offshore Golfo Nuevo ...
“The whale apparently swam away free from the gear,” Jerry Conway, an adviser with the Campobello Whale Rescue Team, told the news outlet.
A CANADIAN lobster fisherman who saved dozens of whales after they became entangled in fishing lines and nets has been killed during a rescue.
“They got the whale totally disentangled, and then some kind of freak thing happened and the whale made a big flip,” Mackie Green of the team told ...
Captain Joe Howlett, right, and his son Tyler Howlett are pictured in this undated photo. Joe was killed after freeing a whale during a rescue mission ...
A Canadian volunteer whale rescuer was killed in an accident this week while cutting an endangered right whale free from fishing lines. In this video ...
FREDERICTON -- An American agency that responds to marine mammals in distress has halted its efforts to free large whales trapped in fishing gear ...
Joe Howlett was no stranger to the risky work of rescuing whales. More than 15 years ago, the Canadian lobster fisherman co-founded the ...
Joe Howlett, 59, of Campobello Island, New Brunswick, was aboard a Fisheries Department vessel in search of a North Atlantic right whale that was ...
Joe Howlett, a leading expert in disentangling whales entrapped in fishing gear, died on 10 July while engaged in a rescue operation. Howlett was on ...
Joe Howlett (R) here with his son Tyler Howlett, left, was killed by a North Atlantic right whale after he disentangled the animal from fishing lines near ...
In this April 10, 2008, file photo, a North Atlantic right whale dives in Cape Cod Bay near Provincetown, Mass. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia, File).
A fisherman and wildlife conservationist was killed Monday when the whale he had just freed from fishing nets stuck the man as it suddenly thrashed.
The 59-year-old had boarded a vessel off the province's eastern coast to help rescue a north Atlantic whale which had become entangled in heavy ...
A Canadian man has been killed during a rescue operation after he cut an endangered whale free from tangled fishing lines. Joe Howlett succeeded ...
A lobster fisherman was killed by an endangered whale moments after he saved it when it became tangled in a fishing net. Joe Howlett, from New ...
7/11/2017
A Canadian lobster fisherman who saved dozens of endangered whales after they became tangled in fishing nets has been killed by one of the ...
This 40-foot humpback was freed from severe entanglement in fishing gear off Grand Manan Island in 2007, with the aid of Scott Landry from the ...
Howlett successfully managed to free the whale, but was struck by the mammal just moments later, the local paper Medicine Hat News reported.
Joe Howlett helped rescue a Young right whale tangled in fishing gear in Canada's Bay of Fundy. Photograph: International Fund for Animal Welfare.
A lobster fisherman with a passion for freeing whales from deadly fishing line was killed soon after he cut the last piece of rope from a massive whale ...
Another animal welfare group, Whale and Dolphin Conservation, says accidental entanglement is the biggest global threat to whales, dolphins and ...
“They got the whale totally disentangled and then some kind of freak thing happened and the whale made a big flip,” said Green, who started the ...
Joe Howlett died after cutting a whale free of fishing line off the coast of New Brunswick in eastern Canada today. It was the last of about two dozen ...
CAMPOBELLO ISLAND, N.B. — A lobster fisherman with a passion for freeing whales from deadly fishing line was killed soon after he cut the last ...
Joe Howlett had just freed an imperiled right whale tangled up in fishing gear when the Campobello Island, N.B., man lost his life Monday night.
Mackie Green of the Campobello Whale Rescue Team said Joe Howlett was on board a Fisheries Department rib vessel off Shippagan on Monday to ...
7/10/2017
The Campobello Island community is mourning Joe Howlett, the man who was killed Monday while trying to rescue a whale in the Gulf of St. Lawrence ...