After new federal reports estimated that the California drift gillnet fishery caught about 12 Pacific humpbacks in 2021, the Center for Biological Diversity warned the National Marine Fisheries Service today to expect to be sued for failing to protect these endangered whales from entanglements in drift nets.
Gray whale is swimming free after rescuers cut loose massive bundle of netting
After a three-hour effort on the water two miles off the Dana Point Harbor jetty, rescuers had cut through the massive bundle of netting and the 28-foot juvenile gray whale swam free, heading north at 4 knots. >> read more …