March 22, 2023 — Researchers from a team led by Oregon State University have geographically located areas where whales are more likely to become entangled in fishing gear on the Oregon coast.
The research was recently published in a paper in the journal Biological Conservation and was a collaboration with scientists at the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife.
“We’ve also discovered that risk varies with time. It’s a very dynamic thing. And it varies with response to ocean conditions,” explained Solene Derville, a postdoctoral fellow at Oregon State University’s Marine Mammal Institute.