California's Dungeness crab industry is under increasing regulation because of concerns over whales getting entangled in ...

An advisory to the state's commercial Dungeness crab fleet urges caution due to the risk of whale entanglement.

Now, an international, interdisciplinary team of scientists has found that the intricate songs of humpback whales, which can spread rapidly from one population to another, follow the same rule ...

This statistical rule is called Zipf’s law, and now, an interdisciplinary team of scientists has revealed that humpback whale songs follow the same pattern. In a study published Thursday in the ...

The Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife’s Marine Resources Program issued the advisory late last month, effective ...

A fleet advisory for the commercial Dungeness crab fishery in all waters off Oregon was issued Jan. 30 by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Marine Resources Program.

Humpback whale song is a striking example of a complex, culturally transmitted behavior, but up to now, there was little evidence it has language-like structure. Human language, which is also ...

This paper will spotlight the 19 most endangered animals in Washington and narrate the unique particularities of these rare animal species. A humpback whale, aka Megaptera novaeangliae, is a baleen ...

Generations of fishermen have fueled a vibrant Coastside community, but for an increasing number of fishermen, passion isn’t ...

The "fight" club includes right, bowhead, gray and humpback whales. The research was published Jan. 31 in Marine Mammal Science. To conduct the study Trevor Branch, professor of aquatic and ...