A juvenile humpback whale nicknamed Tutu is swimming freely again after a multi-day mission to disentangle it from more than 150 metres of fishing gear off Vancouver Island.

Paul Cottrell, a marine mammal coordinator with the federal Fisheries Department, says the rescue team received several reports from the public about the 4-1/2-year-old whale towing a fishing buoy near Texada Island in the northern Salish Sea on Sept. 4.

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