Oregon Fishermen, Beachcombers Urged to Watch for Transponders from Japan (September 29, 2014, 7:17 am) NEWPORT, Ore.
These floating instruments are about the size of a 2-liter soda bottle and were set in the ocean from different ports off Japan in 2011-12 after the massive Tohoku earthquake and tsunami.
Northwest anglers venturing out into the Pacific Ocean in pursuit of salmon and other fish this fall may scoop up something unusual into their nets – instruments released from Japan called “transponders.”