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Nahcotta Washington, ca. 1893, railroad pier and steamboats at dock. In 1858, Capt. James H. Whitcomb, a pioneer of the Oregon Territory, obtained a contract to carry mail from Willapa, Washington, a small settlement upstream from modern-day Raymond, where he had a donation land claim, across the Willapa Bay to Oysterville.
Willapa Bay is fairly shallow: more than half of its surface area lies in the intertidal zone, and half of the volume of water inside it enters and leaves with every tide. The bay is an estuary formed when the Long Beach Peninsula, a long sand spit from the Columbia River to the south, partially enclosed the estuaries of several smaller rivers.
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon has extended rules restricting the state's lucrative Dungeness crab fishery in order to protect humpback whales from becoming entangled in ropes attached to crab traps ...
According to Wednesday’s declaration, Fish and Wildlife will reassess commercial crab fishing limitations on or around Jan. 11 to determine if commercial crab fishing can start in the rest of ...
Willapa National Wildlife Refuge is a National Wildlife Refuge located on the shores of Willapa Bay in Washington, United States. It comprises 11,000 acres (45 km 2 ) of sand dunes, sand beaches, mudflats , grasslands , saltwater and freshwater marshes , and coniferous forest.
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The problem is not just nets but ghost gear in general; [5] old-fashioned crab traps, without the required "rot-out panel", also sit on the bottom, where they become self-baiting traps that can continue to trap marine life for years. Even balled-up fishing line can be deadly for a variety of creatures, including birds and marine mammals. [6]
A young humpback whale entangled in heavy ropes and buoys and anchored by a 300-pound crab pot was successfully saved by Alaskan rescuers.. Two local residents spotted the whale on 10 October near ...