Fisheries using vertical lines can entangle the whales, posing a risk to the already-endangered species. There are just over 300 North Atlantic right whales left in the wild, according to the ...

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The whales’ migration route—from their calving grounds in Florida to feed in Canada—is littered with more than 1 million vertical lines from pots and traps, with 622,000 of these in US waters.