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Whale entanglements force halt to almost all California Dungeness harvests

The whales got tangled up in Dungeness fishing gear off San Mateo County and in Monterey Bay

By Undercurrent News | March 28, 2022 18:15 BST
Some harvested Dungeness crab. Photo courtesy California Department of Fish and Wildlife
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Commercial Dungeness crab harvesting will cease along about three-quarters of the coast of the US state of California next month due to two recent entanglements of humpback whales, state officials said [...]

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