OR Should Do More to Protect Whales from Entanglement Group Says / Public News Service
A conservation group is calling on Oregon to do more to protect whales from fishing gear. Ben Enticknap, Pacific campaign manager and senior scientist for the nonprofit Oceana, said Dungeness crab pots off the coast of Oregon entangle whales. There were 333 confirmed whale entanglements off the west coast between 2012 and 2022, according to federal numbers. ...