A fleet advisory for the commercial Dungeness crab fishery in all waters off Oregon was issued Jan. 30 by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Marine Resources Program.
A humpback whale entangled in multiple sets of commercial crab gear from Oregon was reported off the central Oregon coast on Jan. 6, marking the first humpback entanglement attributed by the National Marine Fisheries Service to Oregon commercial crab gear this year.
This follows a record high of four entanglements, involving three humpback whales and one fin whale, attributed to Oregon commercial crab gear in 2024…