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Entanglement in fishing gear is one of the two biggest threats to declining species of whales, along with collisions with ships.
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By converting sounds to images, scientists can use artificial intelligence to quickly find and assess animals' calls, even deep in the ocean.
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A federal official has issued his recommendation regarding the Makah whale hunt. Judge George G. Jordan, administrative law judge with the U.S. Coast Guard, says he recommends granting the waiver the tribe has requested under the Marine Mammal Protection Act.
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The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife has issued an emergency rule ordering commercial whale watch tours to stay farther away from an unwell baby orca to help her survive. J56, or Tofino, as the whale is also known, was born in May 2019 to an orca known as Tsuchi, or J31.
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Federal scientists say a gray whale that might have developed complications from a satellite tag appears to be doing OK. It was tagged by NOAA Fisheries…
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Inside Seattle Pacific University’s Eaton Hall, a small group of students huddle around the huge skull of a gray whale, whose bones they’ve all been…
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Officials are investigating after a Washington State Ferries vessel struck a whale Tuesday night in Seattle's Elliott Bay.The M/V Wenatchee was leaving…
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Earlier this year, a gray whale calf died after getting tangled in crab pot lines near Seaview, Washington. Now commercial and tribal crab fishermen...
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More than 30 times this year, the federal government has received reports of whales tangled in fishing gear along the West Coast. Sometimes the whales...
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This story originally aired on April 2, 2016. It’s a reality of life on the Pacific Coast — occasionally, dead whales wash up on the beach. So when a…