\n He was fishing from a rowing boat on the Bure, at Horning, when he ended up with a seal in his keep net.\n<\/p>\n
\n The spot is 20 miles inland, meaning the animal had swum up the river from Great Yarmouth.\n<\/p>\n
\n The angler, who has not been named, spotted the seal when it popped up and went for a fish he had caught.\n<\/p>\n
\n It then followed the fish into the net, meaning the fisherman was left with both.\n<\/p>\n
\n The seal was found to be “significantly underweight” (Image: Friends of Horsey Seals)\n<\/p>\n
\n He contacted the volunteer rescue team at Friends of Horsey Seals, which came to collect the creature and take it for treatment.\n<\/p>\n
\n A spokesman for the charity said the Boxing Day incident was “one of the strangest seal rescue stories of the year”.\n<\/p>\n
\n Volunteer Sally Butler added: “I took the call just before 8am – the fisherman was in his little rowing boat, he’d caught a fish and he was trying to get it into his keep net and the seal went in behind the fish.”\n<\/p>\n
\n The seal was found to be significantly underweight so was taken to the RSPCA’s base at East Winch, near King’s Lynn, for further assessment and treatment.\n<\/p>\n
\n Ms Butler added: “The pup was only 12kg when, at this point, they need to be 30 to 45kg, so we took it to East Winch.\n<\/p>\n
\n “As long as it starts feeding for itself, hopefully it will be OK.”\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\n The pup, which has now been named Sunshine, was one of 49 calls received by the Friends of Horsey Seals on Friday.\n<\/p>\n
\n It was said that the high number of calls was typical for the charity at this time of year as it was their busiest period.\n<\/p>\n
\n Thousands of grey seals are born every year between November and January on the stretch of coast around Horsey, Sea Palling and Winterton-on-Sea near Great Yarmouth.\n<\/p>\n
\n In some cases, young pups who are on the move can often cause concern amongst visitors, but generally do not need help.\n<\/p>\n
\n It is not the first time seals have travelled inland through the rivers of the Broads. The creatures have been seen swimming on the Wensum in the centre of Norwich.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He was fishing from a rowing boat on the Bure, at Horning, when he ended up with a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":660185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3847],"tags":[70,16,15,1717],"class_list":{"0":"post-660184","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115802725558671590","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}