Oregon Crabbers Fund Whale Study in Hopes of Avoiding Entanglements
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [SeafoodNews] by Susan Chambers - October 30, 2018
Recognizing that whale entanglements could seriously affect the Oregon Dungeness crab fishery, the Oregon Dungeness Crab Commission took proactive action earlier this week to fund a new study looking at whale distributions along the coast.
Oregon State University Marine Mammal Ecologist Dr. Leigh Torres is leading a project partnering with the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, the U.S. Coast Guard and Oregon Sea Grant designed to better understand where whale distribution patterns overlap with fishing effort ...
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