Marine biologists on Wednesday were searching for a 30-foot-long gray whale with its tail entangled in a massive gill net a day after it was spotted off the coast of Pacifica.
The whale was spotted Tuesday near Thornton Beach swimming north as part of gray whales' annual migration from Mexico to Alaska. It was dragging the net with two bright red buoys that rescuers attached to it on March 22, when the animal was first spotted off Laguna Beach in Southern California .
's team, which is working on the rescue effort with the Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito, California, was searching Wednesday for the whale north of San Francisco. Kathi George, director of cetacean conservation biology at the Marine Mammal Center, said a rescue crew in Southern California couldn't disentangle the whale last month but the team was able to attach a satellite tag to the net to track it and two buoys to make it easier to spot the animal.
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