{"id":426570,"date":"2026-01-24T07:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T07:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/426570\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T07:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T07:06:07","slug":"oregon-sets-new-rules-to-protect-humpback-whales-from-entanglements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/426570\/","title":{"rendered":"Oregon sets new rules to protect humpback whales from entanglements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) \u2014 The Oregon Department of Fish &amp; Wildlife is changing regulations to protect humpback whales.<\/p>\n<p>ODFW is moving the May 1 \u201clate season\u201d regulations to April 1 this year to reduce the risk of whale entanglements in commercial crab gear.<\/p>\n<p>One of the regulations will require commercial fishermen to work in waters less than 240 feet deep and use 20% fewer pots, along with other regulations.<\/p>\n<p>The Marine Fisheries Service attributes entanglements of three humpback whales in 2024 and four whales in 2025 to Oregon crab fishing gear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) \u2014 The Oregon Department of Fish &amp; Wildlife is changing regulations to protect humpback whales.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-426570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}