WAYWARD WHALE

Rescuers have managed to guide an endangered beluga whale into a net and removed it from a northern New Brunswick river as they seek to relocate it to a pod in its natural habitat. A marine mammal group participating in the unique and complex operation tweeted that the whale was in the net and they were trying to keep him stable and secure. The Fisheries Department said in an earlier Tweet Thursday that it was reconfiguring its nets and using an acoustic deterrent device to direct the beluga in a certain direction. They are hoping to move the juvenile whale from the Nepisiguit River to the St. Lawrence Estuary near Cacouna, Que., where there is a pod of belugas.