{"id":1021517,"date":"2022-03-14T18:01:58","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T18:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/14\/watch-hectors-dolphin-rescued-from-cray-pot-line-in-new-zealand\/"},"modified":"2022-03-14T18:01:58","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T18:01:58","slug":"watch-hectors-dolphin-rescued-from-cray-pot-line-in-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/14\/watch-hectors-dolphin-rescued-from-cray-pot-line-in-new-zealand\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Hector&#039;s dolphin rescued from cray pot line in New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Hectors-dolphin-rescued-from-cray-pot-line-in-New-Zealand.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">March 14 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> The crew of sightseeing boat in New Zealand came to the rescue of a Hector&#8217;s dolphin spotted with a cray pot line wrapped around its tail fins.<\/p>\n<p>Sightseeing boat company Akaroa Dolphins said in a Facebook post that crew members and guests spotted a cray pot floating in the water in Haylocks Bay, and the boat&#8217;s skipper decided to take a closer look since cray pots are not allowed in the area.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"mt-5 text-center mb-5\">\n<div class=\"ad_tag\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The boat approached the pot and crew members and guests soon realized the pot&#8217;s line was wrapped around the tail of a mother Hector&#8217;s dolphin swimming with her calf.<\/p>\n<p>A video included in the post shows crew members and a guest cutting through the line to free the dolphin.<\/p>\n<p>The mother dolphin was returned to the water and reunited with her calf.<\/p>\n<p>The cray pot was reported to the Department of Conservation for investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 14 (UPI) &#8212; The crew of sightseeing boat in New Zealand came to the rescue of a Hector&#8217;s dolphin spotted with a cray pot line wrapped around its tail fins. Sightseeing boat company Akaroa Dolphins said in a Facebook post that crew members and guests spotted a cray pot floating in the water in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1021518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1021517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1021517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}