Commercial fishermen in Oregon and the rest of the West Coast have been hit with climate change and decreased sales due to the pandemic. By LYNNE TERRY/Oregon Capital Chronicle Portions […]
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OSU’s new ocean research vessel headed to Newport next year has been successfully launched in Louisiana
By MICHELLE KLAMPE/OSU News Service A new 200-foot research vessel headed to the Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport was successfully launched last week at a shipyard in Louisiana. […]
It’s beach season for harbor seals, sea lions and humans — and the experts would like to offer a few words of advice
By SUSAN PALMER/YachatsNews Mammals — both marine and terrestrial — are headed for Oregon beaches this spring and Jim Rice would like a word with the humans. Rice, stranding […]
Marine reserve researchers deploy sensors to see how water temperature and oxygen levels affect ocean life
By MARK FREEMAN/ODFW News Service NEWPORT – Ocean monitoring in Oregon’s five marine reserves is trying to unlock secrets about temperatures and oxygen levels known to impact groundfish and […]
Monday’s unusual and well-documented killing of gray whale calf by 11 orcas helps scientists learn more about marine predation
By DANA TIMS/YachatsNews The lethal encounter between a pod of killer whales and two migrating gray whales off Oregon’s central coast this week is writing a new chapter in […]
Scary-looking creature that keeps washing ashore along the Oregon coast raises interest in lancetfish
By LAUREN McCARTHY/The New York Times For hundreds of years, a strange species of fish with long fanglike teeth that eats its own kind and spends most of its time […]
How do you measure non-economic value of Oregon Marine Reserves? ODFW hopes to find out
By DANA TIMS/YachatsNews Traditional economic surveys are usually very straightforward. If you want to know how workers are employed in Oregon’s salmon-fishing industry, for instance, all you need to […]
Washington researchers work on 9-year-old accidental discovery of Cascadia “leak” 50 miles west of Newport
By HANNAH HICKEY/UW News Bad weather that delayed a University of Washington scientific expedition has led to the accidental discovery and long-term research of a leak of a […]
After ocean’s closure, the commercial fishing season for Chinook salmon off Oregon coast could be a disaster
Offshore salmon seasons will be closed or look much different this summer along most of the Oregon coast as managers struggle to ensure the safety of declining fall Chinook […]
Ocean researchers in Newport find that upwelling, heat waves are biggest factors in whale entanglement in crab gear
By SEAN NEALON/OSU News Service NEWPORT – New research by an Oregon State University-led team is beginning to unravel the times of year and locations where whales are at […]