#sablefish — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #sablefish, aggregated by home.social.
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Northern elephant #seals use deep-sea research #sonar as dinner bell https://phys.org/news/2024-09-northern-elephant-deep-sea-sonar.html
#DeepSea observatory provides insights into the behavior at depth of sub-adult male northern #ElephantSeals, Mirounga angustirostris: Héloïse Frouin-Mouy et al. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0308461
"The seals appeared to use this sound to locate an area with prey and may take advantage of #fish disturbed by the camera lights, particularly targeting #sablefish, their preferred meal, as seen in the video footage"
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In the #lawsuit filed last year, the #CenterForBiologicalDiversity alleged the agency #failed to establish a plan to #protect the #whales from #deadly #entanglements in sablefish pot gear. In a December 2021 permit, #NOAA authorized "the incidental, but not intentional" take, or catch, of listed or #protected #MarineMammal #species in the #Washington , #Oregon & #California #sablefish pot fishery.