Police rescue baby dolphin (Australia)

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November 3^rd, 2014. POLICE dived in the Swan River to rescue a baby dolphin wrapped in a crab net line near Mosman Park about 8.30am this morning.

The Water Police officer reported the rope was wrapped around the calf three times, including its mouth.

A family of at least 20 bottlenose dolphins use the river but their population was affected by the sudden deaths of six in 2009, two calves that died in 2013 and the ongoing affects of run-off from urban expansion.

In 2012, three North Fremantle-based Water Police were rewarded for their East Fremantle rescue of the calf known as Gizmo after it was seen trailing a rope for two months in the river.

Police reported that the calf caught the rope this morning between Point Roe and Childley Point in Blackwall Reach, appeared uninjured and swam off with its mother after being released.

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