Identifying highly used Dungeness crab fleet fishing areas off central and northern California to inform entanglement risks of large whales

FULL RESEARCH ARTICLE Michael Johns1*, Kathi George2, Rebekah Lane2, and Jaime Jahncke1 1 Point Blue Conservation Science, 3820 Cypress Drive, Suite 11, Petaluma, CA 94954, USA https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0295-5121 (MJ) https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2896-6101 (JJ)2 The Marine Mammal Center, 2000 Bunker Road, Sausalito, CA 94965, USA https://orcid.org/0009-0002-9139-9362 (KG) https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7377-4360 (RL) *Corresponding Author: mjohns@pointblue.org Published 22 May 2026 • doi.org/10.51492/cfwj.112.5 Abstract Large whales seasonally aggregate … Continue reading Identifying highly used Dungeness crab fleet fishing areas off central and northern California to inform entanglement risks of large whales