A team of Oregon State University researchers will use a new federal grant to study how different equipment configurations on crab vessels could help prevent injury to crabbers.
Processors, ports, fishing associations, and others are asking the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to study the potential negative impacts of sea otter reintroduction along the West Coast.
The disparity between the fisheries is concerning – a possible bellwether for the chaotic consequences of climate change, competition between wild and hatchery fish, and commercial fishing bycatch.