VANCOUVER — A group representing whale-watching operators has shared a photo of a young humpback with a deep gash in its back, which it says was likely inflicted by a ferry in waters off Vancouver last week.

The Pacific Whale Watch Association says the calf was spotted on Monday a few kilometres from the scene of Friday’s reported collision with a Hullo Ferries vessel.

A photograph shows a deep slice in the whale’s back at the base of the dorsal fin.

The association shared the photo on social media as well as a photo it says shows the same calf uninjured a few days before the reported ferry strike.

Hullo Ferries, which operates high-speed catamarans between Vancouver and Nanaimo, said over the weekend that one of its vessels likely struck a humpback whale near Vancouver in English Bay

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