”Mr. Kenney, 44, and Mr. Paquette, 54, are experienced fishermen, Mr. Kenney said, and the two had been out the previous few days because the fishing had been the best they’d seen in a decade. They’d ...
They’d also seen what they believed to be the same whale, which was feeding on bait fish in the area.On Tuesday morning, they waited for a heavy fog to clear and left Eliot, Me., on the New Hampshire ...
, on the New Hampshire border, just after 5 a.m. in search of the schools of bait. They encountered the whale once again.“I’ve tried to be as safe as possible and fish outside the bait school,” he sai...
“You don’t want to be in the center of the biomass for the bait because that’s likely where the whale will come up. We were on the edges — a lot of boats weren’t.”...