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California loves Dungeness crab. But concerns over whale safety have put the industry in peril
Crab pots sit on the ocean floor, with more than 200 feet of rope attaching them to buoys at the surface. A bait jar inside the pot tempts the crab into a one-way entrance. Titus and Bjorklund ...
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The $50 million question: Can California’s Dungeness crab fishery coexist with whale conservation efforts?
In total, he has set out 250 crab traps. Every buoy is attached to a thin rope that stretches 200 feet down to a cylindrical, metal-and-wire pot on the ocean floor. Day spent the previous month ...