commercial fisherman
Commercial fisherman and crabber based out of San Francisco, and a member of a government-sponsored working group that's developing strategies to reduce whale entanglements in fishing gear
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John Mellor
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FROM John Mellor
Which Way, L.A.?
Protecting Whales from Fishing Lines Whales that have been strangers to California's coastal waters are not just turning up in larger numbers than ever before, they're getting tangled in fishing lines — 50 animals just since January. Environmentalists are very alarmed and so is the fishing industry.
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