Off the hook, Kermit the seal spends day basking in the sun

Press Watch — The Honolulu Advertiser, May 6, 2009
David Schofield, marine mammal response coordinator with NOAA Fisheries, holds up the barbed hook removed Sunday from Kermit the monk seal. NOAA Fisheries is asking fishermen to use nonbarbed fishhooks. ANDREW SHIMABUKU | The Honolulu Advertiser

WAIKIKI — A Hawaiian monk seal that had a fishhook removed from his mouth on Sunday made his way yesterday from Kalaeloa to Queen’s Beach where he sunned himself.

Kermit, as he is called by the Monk Seal Response Team, looked much better yesterday than he did on Sunday, when volunteers and scientists pulled the barbed ulua fishhook from his swollen mouth.

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