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To offset poverty wages, ship captains typically allow their crew to supplement their income by keeping the fins to sell at port, off books.

He thrust the blade into the thick muscle beneath the dorsal fin to attach the tracking device.

"I hadn't seen the moment when the back appears, and the fin is visible. I didn't see it, I heard it. That made me nervous," he said.

After the photos and uniforms went up, the fish "felt better" the following day and was seen "waving its fins" in the tank, the aquarium said in its X post.

If you don’t get around to chasing whales this winter, blue whales and fin whales swim through the same coastal waters May through November, and humpback and minke whales may be seen year-round.