**Reducing fishing gear could save whales with low impacts to California's crab fishermen**

Sometimes simple solutions are better. It all depends on the nature of the problem. For humpback whales, the problem is the rope connecting a crab trap on the seafloor to the buoy on the surface. And for fishermen, it's fishery closures caused by whale entanglements.

https://phys.org/news/2023-09-fishing-gear-whales-impacts-california.html