{"id":258193,"date":"2025-12-30T14:53:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T14:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/258193\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T14:53:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T14:53:10","slug":"lost-grey-seal-pup-rescued-after-being-netted-by-fisherman-20-miles-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/258193\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost Grey Seal Pup Rescued After Being Netted by Fisherman 20 Miles Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-227398\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Grey-seal-surprised-Norfolk-fisherman-showing-up-in-his-net-SWNS-SQUARE.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1044\"\/>Grey seal surprised Norfolk fisherman showing up in his net \u2013 SWNS SQUARE<\/p>\n<p>A surprised fisherman hooked an unlikely catch the day after Christmas when he netted a lost seal 20 miles up river from the coast.<\/p>\n<p>The angler was in a row boat on the River Bure in Norfolk when the grey seal went after his day\u2019s catch of fish.<\/p>\n<p>The hungry seal looked up at the stunned fishermen from inside the net before he called a rescue charity to come help.<\/p>\n<p>Arriving on the scene near Horning, a representative from the wildlife charity called the sea mammal significantly underweight, and then took it to the RSPCA shelter.<\/p>\n<p>The pup, now called Sunshine, likely came from Sea Palling near Horsey Gap which is home to one of the largest colonies of grey seals in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>Around 3,000 pups are born each season but the charity, Friends of Horsey Seals, said this was \u2018one of the strangest seal rescue stories\u2019 they\u2019ve seen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHorning is 18 kilometers away, over a 5 hour walk, from Sea Palling,\u201d said a Horsey Seals spokesperson. \u201cChances are that the seal didn\u2019t come over land.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInstead it probably swam up the river Bure from Great Yarmouth. The distance from Great Yarmouth to Horning by river is 20 miles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-227397\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Grey-seal-surprised-fisherman-in-Norfolk-showing-up-in-his-net-SWNS.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"755\"\/>Grey seal surprised fisherman in Norfolk showing up in his net-SWNS<\/p>\n<p><strong>SURPRISE<\/strong>: <a title=\"\u2018Trashed Panda\u2019 Story Raises $180,000 for Animal Shelter That Discovered it Drunk in the Bathroom\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodnewsnetwork.org\/trashed-panda-story-raises-180000-for-animal-shelter-that-discovered-it-drunk-in-the-bathroom\/\" rel=\"bookmark nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018Trashed Panda\u2019 Story Raises $180,000 for Animal Shelter That Discovered it Drunk in the Bathroom<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe startled fisherman went to land the fish when the seal appeared\u2014and also went for the same fish.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe ended up with both the fish and the seal in his keep net, at which point he called our rescue number.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The seal pup weighed 12 kilograms (26 pounds), whereas most pups of its age should be between 30 to 45kg.<\/p>\n<p>But, it\u2019s now recovering well thanks to the holiday surprise and rescue.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PASS ON THE SWEET FACE By Sharing it on Social Media\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Grey seal surprised Norfolk fisherman showing up in his net \u2013 SWNS SQUARE A surprised fisherman hooked an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[273],"tags":[100,23737,18,8388,19,17,85629,133,1691,461],"class_list":{"0":"post-258193","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-animals","9":"tag-cute","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-fishing","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-rescue-stories","15":"tag-science","16":"tag-surprise","17":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115809091846199563","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}