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Half an hour later, a U. Coast Guard helicopter spotted the animal. Using a small inflatable boat deployed from a New Jersey Fish and Wildlife Conservation Police vessel, crews made a few careful approaches to the whale with a hook-shaped knife at the end of a thirty-foot pole. Then, the words everyone was waiting to hear came over the radios: "we cut the line. In many ways, this was more than we could have hoped for," said Scott Landry of the Center for Coastal Services.

Given time, the whale should be able to shed that bit of rope. Whale watchers out of New York will help us monitor the animal's progress.

Disentangling whales is dangerous for both whales and the people responding. That's up from three sightings of five whales in , after which a steady climb began, he said. The resurgence of whales in the New York-New Jersey Bight, a triangle-shaped indentation in the Atlantic coast, has attracted tourists who want to see and photograph the giant marine mammals. But the concentration of whales near New York City also poses risks to the mammals, as they ply some of the most heavily traversed waters on the planet.

Since , NOAA records show humpback whales have died on the beaches and waters of the Atlantic coast. The 29 in New York were the most of any state. Of the dead whales examined, half had evidence of human interaction, such as a ship strike or entanglement in fishing gear.