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Petition comes weeks after young entangled humpback whale found stranded near Yachats.

A federal official has given the green light for members of the Makah tribe, who inhabit the northwest tip of Washington State's Olympic Peninsula, to resume exercising their treaty right to whaling.

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife will continue the Dungeness crab season through the end of March, despite concerns that crabbing equipment poses a threat to migrating humpback whales.

The deaths of more than 700 West Coast gray whales since 2019 is likely the result of low food supplies caused by a lack of sea ice in the Arctic.

Oregon has extended rules restricting the state’s lucrative Dungeness crab fishery in order to protect humpback whales from becoming entangled in ropes attached to crab traps, the state’s fish and wildlife department has announced.

The majority of captains of big commercial ships entering and leaving Puget Sound are cooperating with a request to slow down temporarily to reduce underwater noise impacts to the Pacific Northwest's critically endangered killer whales.

Fortunately, it doesn't happen very often in the Pacific Northwest that ships collide with whales. But when it does, the whale probably dies. Three separate teams have developed smartphone-based systems that can alert commercial mariners to watch out or slow down when there are whales nearby. A recent ride-along on a big container ship demonstrated that real-time whale alerts are still a work in progress.

OSU scientists aboard the Bell M. Shimada keep an eye out for whales. One scientist hopes to help predict where whales will show up by studying the food they eat.

The whales regularly travel up and down the west coast in search of food.

A research expedition out of Newport has made a significant discovery about a little-known and rarely-seen beaked whale off Oregon’s coast.

The plan aims to keep endangered wildlife like the humpback whale from getting entangled in fishing gear off of the Oregon coast, specifically in Oregon’s Dungeness crab fishery.

Earthquake scientists studying a fault off Oregon’s coast have figured out a new way to map the layers of sediment and rock under the ocean floor.