Approximately 3% of the marine mammals we rescue each year suffer from some sort of entanglement due to marine debris like packing straps, fishing line, netting and balloon strings.

One example is Cujo, a young adult male California sea lion that was rescued because of a packing strap that was wrapped tightly around his neck and was deeply imbedded in the skin. The strap had probably been there for several months, as the tissue had begun to grow around the strap. The strap was removed and the wound irrigated, and a few days later Cujo was released to his ocean home.
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