A Department of Conservation disentanglement team travelled from Kaikōura to lead the complex rescue operation.

A Department of Conservation disentanglement team travelled from Kaikōura to lead the complex rescue operation.

A southern right whale entangled in a blue cod pot buoys and more than 100 of rope, has been freed in a major operation by the Department of Conservation.

The nine-metre southern right whale, or tohorā in Māori, is the first of the species to have been recorded entangled in New Zealand waters