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Federal judge says NMFS didn’t do enough to protect humpbacks from sablefish trap ropes

The ruling impacts about 150 commercial fishing vessels that use pots to capture sablefish in waters off the US states of California, Oregon and Washington

By Undercurrent News | March 17, 2023 18:07 GMT
Humpback whales. Photograph by Ed Lyman for NOAA.
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A US federal judge ruled this week that the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) violated the Endangered Species Act by failing to develop a plan to prevent West Coast commercial sablefish fishermen from harming humpback whales, the Associated Press reports [...]

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