also known as NOAA Fisheries, discovered that the gillnet was caught on a rock crab trap on the bottom, which was ultimately "tying the whale in place." "The whale was anchored in place because of ...

West Coast fisheries have also seen immediate impacts. On April 11, a NOAA regional administrator announced at a Pacific Fishery Management Council meeting that a program to reduce whale ...

NOAA Fisheries has been tracking the two whales since they entered the Gulf of Mexico in February. NOAA photo The mysterious saga of two “out-of-habitat” whales has taken another strange turn ...