Additional service work is performed during ice entrapments of cetaceans. During spring, pack ice invades the Newfoundland coastline. This results in cetaceans frequently becoming caught in the ice. From three to five hundred individuals are temporally caught in this way. Mortality is minimized by establishing assistance programs for the animals through mobilizing nearby communities.
Education regarding the impacts of nearby skidoos or touching of the animals is done.
Ice- captive whales temporally provide outport communities with their own aquariums which stimulate much good education. For programs which deal with incidental catch of cetaceans to be effective the fishing community must know not only how to minimize them but why it is important to conserve such non- commercial animals. Thus public education has been an important to conserve such non-commercial animals. Thus public education has been an important aspect of the groups work. To date we have published over one-half million educational posters and produced dozens of television programs within Newfoundland and Labrador.