Roxanne Hoorn Correspondent / SiliconValley.com
Two Bay Area fishermen push low-tech redesign of crab pot to protect whales — and revitalize a threa – When the largest animals on Earth become entangled in the crabbers ropes, they can suffer severe injury, infection and sometimes even die. As whale populations swell along the California coast, Dungeness crab fishermen are struggling to stay afloat. Fear of entangling whales in a minefield of ropes extending from traps …
