A young harbour seal is recovering after being rescued from a life-threatening gillnet entanglement in West Vancouver. Haulena says the net did notaffect the animal’s trachea, major blood vessels or esophagus, but that she had not been able to feed and was very thin, weighing about half what a healthy harbour seal should be at her age. Haulena expects her to stay in care for another four to six weeks, to continue improving, before she will be released back into the wild. “She’s actually improving quite a bit, which they usually do once that injury or a source of the injury is removed,” he said. “So she’s back to eating fish on her own and swimming quite actively.