Oregon State Recognized With National Engagement Award for Efforts to Reduce Whale Entanglement

Oregon’s iconic Dungeness crab fishery and efforts to reduce whale entanglements may become known for the proactive, collaborative work led by Oregon State University researchers.
The collective work and outreach by OSU was recently recognized as one of four regional winners of the 2025 W.K. Kellogg Foundation Community Engagement Scholarship Award.
The Oregon whale entanglement project, a transdisciplinary team led by Dr. Leigh Torres, researcher in OSU’s Marine Mammal Institute and Oregon Sea Grant Extension marine mammals specialist...
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