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"

Getting sick of all the farmed #salmon on the market? Take a look at some delicious and sustainable alternatives - some wild, some farmed, some pricey, others very affordable:

https://buyingseafood.com/2023/11/09/sustainable-alternatives-to-farmed-salmon/

#seafood #salmon #barramundi #arcticchar #trout #mackerel #sardines #sablefish #mahi #catfish
#food #cooking

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.

https://www.chronline.com/stories/judge-feds-failed-to-protect-endangered-humpbacks-from-fishing-gear,315628?