Volunteer rescuers have freed a humpback whale entangled in rope off Skye.
The animal was spotted in difficulty at Organic Sea Harvest’s Invertote salmon farm site near Staffin in the north of the island on Thursday morning.
British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) said the rope was wrapped around the whale’s head and left fin. The rope is believed to have snagged on a heavy duty chain anchoring a mooring buoy to the seabed.
The charity said the whale, which is about 8-9m (26-29ft) long, was exhausted but had since swum off and was last seen near Gairloch east of Skye on the Highland mainland.
