Credit: Photo: J. Durban, NOAA, and Holly Fearnbach, SR3. Permit # 17355-01
Ruffian’ in Cape Cod Bay, Mass. eight years later on Mar 23 2016. His wounds scarred over but were still very evident, showing that non-lethal entanglement can still have serious health consequences. Additionally, the animal now also showed baleen damage from an unknown
source.