By Brent Cunningham The slow-moving tragedy of whales becoming entangled, often fatally, in the fishing lines used by lobster and crab fishermen gets a fair amount of media coverage.

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At 7:30 on a clear morning in December 2025, I arrived at the marina in Oxnard, California, in search of Mikey Volaski, one of the only commercial fishers in North America whose operation is dedicated ...