Two whales, mother and calf, have made it all the way to Sacramento...

http://www.sacbee.com/257/story/185987.html

The public, god help them, wrote in with suggestions about how to get them
to leave... here's the best of the best:

Q: Can we beam in Scotty from the starship Enterprise to teleport the whales
out of the water -- like they did in "Star Trek IV"?
A: No expert needed on this one.
Firstly, Scotty's dead.
For the rest of the answer, you'll have to sleep on it -- because this
scenario will happen only in your dreams.
Q: Can large purse seiners -- large trawlers with big, baglike nets -- be
used to scoop the whales out of the river?
A: Getting a dead whale into seiner would be relatively easy, said Folkens.
"But getting a large, live whale into a seiner would freak out a whale, and
the whale would probably drown," he said.
: Why not bait them out with a trail of food?
A: The creatures probably won't take the bait, said Pieter Folkens, a
research associate with the Alaska Whale Foundation.
When animals are injured, eating isn't a primary concern, he said.
"If we dumped food in right now, the whales wouldn't leave," Folkens said.
"What incentive would they have to leave?"
Moreover, sal****er fish dumped into a freshwater river would die. The
whales prefer food that is live, not dead. The consequence: Lots of dead
fish floating down the Sacramento River.

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"j" ganz @@
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