SF News State Agency Giving Fishermen ‘Ropeless’ Dungeness Crab Traps, So the Season Won’t Keep Getting Delayed The California Ocean Protection Council has authorized a couple million dollars to give fishermen whale-safe, ropeless Dungeness crab traps, in hopes of stopping the constant delays to crab season.
SF News Two Dozen Killer Whales Spotted Off Farallon Islands, Likely There To Chow On Seals And Baby Whales Whale watchers were thrilled to see a giant pack of 24 orca killer whales right off the coast of the Farallon Islands, but you might be less thrilled to learn that those orcas are probably there to feast on sea lions, elephant seals, and baby gray whales.
SF News That Gray Whale Who Spent a Record Two Months In San Francisco Bay Has Died It was not a good sign that a gray whale had been sticking in the waters of the SF Bay since February, and we now know he’d been hit by ships twice, and has been found dead at the Point Reyes National Seashore.
SF News Possibly Sickly Gray Whale Has Been In San Francisco Bay For Two Months Whale-watching season has begun, and much as in previous years, a few whales have already been sneaking into San Francisco Bay, likely to feast on anchovies. But one whale who's been hanging out in the Bay since February looks possibly unhealthy.
SF News First Gray Whale Sighting of 2023 In SF Bay Has Happened, More Whales Apparently Out There Whale watching season is here a little early in 2023, as the Marine Mammal Center spotted this whale tail February 9, and SF Bay Ferry riders say they’ve seen a few more since.
SF News Futuristic Technology Hopes to Save Whales With Real-Time Tracking, Underwater Microphones, and More About 80 whales are killed every year along the California coast because of collisions with ships, but a new “mapping and analysis tool” called Whale Safe thinks it can eliminate these collisions entirely.
SF News Whales Are Making Pitstops In the Bay Again In Their Migration North May and June have become prime whale-watching times in San Francisco Bay the last five or six years, with both gray and humpback whales increasingly entering the Golden Gate in search of food as they travel to their summer feeding grounds in Alaska.
SF News Whale Watching Season Has Arrived, as Large Pack of False Killer Whales Delights SoCal Watchers Stunning video shows a large pod of false killer whales swimming together and going right up to a boat in Dana Point, and the humpbacks, gray, and blue whales will likely show up here any day now.
SF News Video: Check Out These 80-Foot Blue Whales Swimming in the Monterey Bay The largest animals on the planet have been popping up visibly in Monterey Bay this week, as the crustaceans are making for good eatin’, and whale watching season is hitting its peak.
SF News [Update] Four Whales Turn Up Dead In Bay Area In a Week, One Killed By Ship Strike Another gray whale has died in the Bay Area, the fourth in just eight days, and it washed ashore on Muir Beach in Marin County on Thursday morning. This spate of gray whale deaths is reminding biologists of 2019.
SF News Dead Gray Whale Washes Up at Crissy Field, Gets Towed to Angel Island for Necropsy It's whale season again, both in the Bay and along the NorCal coast, and unfortunately that also means it's dead whale season — and a deceased gray whale washed ashore at Crissy Field on Wednesday morning.
SF News Humpback Whale Arrives in SF Bay in Early March, Believed To Be Earliest Feeding Here Yet The resurging humpback whale scene usually starts in late April or May, but a few whale spottings in the SF Bay last week indicate their calendars may be springing forward.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dungeness Crab Season Delayed Until After Thanksgiving, For Yet Another Year Fresh-caught Dungeness crab will not be on your Thanksgiving menu, as all commercial fishing is delayed in our region until December 1.
Arts & Entertainment Monterey Whale Watching Captain Sees First-Ever Triple Breach of Humpbacks Three humpback whales put on a tandem show in Monterey Bay on Sunday, performing an extremely rare triple breach that delighted whale-watchers out for a tour.
Arts & Entertainment Humpback Whales — and Lots of Calves — Seen Feeding in Monterey Bay It's time for the southward migration of humpback whales down the Pacific coast, and these huge marine mammals need to feed as much as possible as they swim to pack on blubber before reaching warmer waters in Mexico with little to eat for months.
Arts & Entertainment Blue Whales Make Rare Appearance Off San Francisco Coast, Prompting Warning For Ships The Northern California coast tends to get its fair share of sightings of humpback whales and gray whales, but the largest mammals on earth, blue whales, don't do swim-bys quite so often as other species. This year, all rules are out the window.
Arts & Entertainment Over 200 Gray Whales Passed By Point Reyes Over the Weekend The annual northern migration of gray whales is happening in significant numbers off the Northern California coast, and park rangers at the Point Reyes National Seashore counted 209 sightings between Friday and Sunday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Year's Dungeness Crab Season Delayed A Week To Better Protect Whales In an attempt to safeguard marine life, the commercial harvesting season for California’s Dungeness crab will be postponed until November 22nd, a full week past its original start date.
Arts & Entertainment Multiple Whales Were Breaching Wildly In Monterey Bay Right After Tuesday Earthquake Moments after the Tuesday afternoon 4.7M earthquake near Hollister, at least seven humpback whales were spotted simultaneously breaching, six of them in pairs, off the Monterey coast. Coincidence?
Arts & Entertainment Video: Watch a Menagerie of Creatures Feasting on a Whale Carcass Near Monterey Bay While exploring Davidson Seamount, an undersea mountain off the Central California coast, researchers with the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary came upon an active feeding frenzy.
SF News Video Shows Close Call Between Sailboat and Humpback Whale in the Bay A sailboat and a humpback whale nearly collided in San Francisco Bay over the weekend, and the incident, along with an earlier one involving a speedboat doing doughnuts around a whale, is prompting outcries from naturalists.
SF News It's Officially Whale-Spotting Season In San Francisco Bay Gray whales, on their annual migratory path along the Pacific coast to their summer feeding grounds in Alaska, have been spotted recently entering San Francisco Bay — and a pair of them also washed up dead last week.
SF News California Sued Over Whales Killed By Loose Dungeness Crab Pots An environmental group just sued the state of California, alleging that the state "wasn't doing enough to keep Dungeness crab fishing gear from killing protected whales." That quote comes from the Associated Press,
SF News Photo: Dead Humpback Whale Washes Up Near Pebble Beach The carcass of a dead humpback whale appeared along a Monterey County beach on Sunday, first seen floating in the water near Bird Rock in Pebble Beach. NBC Bay Area had the news,
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Humpback Whale Breaching Off Baker Beach A sight to see! Photographer captures whale breaching in San Francisco Bay. https://t.co/fHczLkMg7b pic.twitter.com/kGvG2UecxO— NBC Bay Area (@nbcbayarea) July 15, 2017 We've had a wealth of whale
