AN unemployed fisherman in New South Wales was fined $500 last week for riding on the back of a southern right whale in Bermagui Harbour, about 300 kilometres south of Sydney. In court, Andrew Curven claimed that the whale surfaced beneath him and that he did not deliberately scramble onto the animal’s back. He was found guilty of interfering with a marine mammal.
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