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Culminating five years of work, Oregon State University has submitted a 1,000-page plan that outlines construction and operation details of a wave energy test site off the Oregon coast, along with measures to avoid, minimize and mitigate any potential environmental effects. The project is designed to allow commercial wave energy developers the opportunity to test different technologies for harnessing the untapped energy of ocean waves. … Read full story.

When endangered killer whales swim through the sheltered waters of Puget Sound, they leave behind traces of environmental DNA that researchers can detect as much as two hours later, a new study has found. … Read full story.

It appears that Oregon will have a new license plate with the image of a gray whale mother and her calf after the Oregon State University Marine Mammal Institute sold its 3,000th voucher for the plates earlier this week. … Read full story.

Doug Sandilands will give a free public talk this Sunday, April 15, on Large Whale Entanglement in Pacific Northwest Fishing Gear. … Read full story.

The way that animal predators work either independently or cooperatively in nature can also explain how human foragers such as fishermen will behave, a new study suggests … Read full story.