An unusually large number of grey whales are washing up dead on their northbound migration past the Oregon and Washington coasts this year.
The peak stranding time for grey whales in the Pacific Northwest is normally April, May and June. But the federal agency NOAA Fisheries has already logged nine dead whales washed ashore in Washington and one in Oregon. That's on top of 21 strandings on California beaches since the beginning of the year.One 39-foot-long dead adult whale was found floating in Elliott Bay last week, right in front of downtown Seattle.
Since February, Huggins has participated in necropsies of malnourished, mostly adult, grey whales on Whidbey Island and the Key Peninsula to Ocean Shores and Long Beach, Washington. Huggins said these whales probably didn't get fat enough on their summer feeding grounds in Alaskan waters way back last year.
Despite the unusual number of dead whales found, NOAA Fisheries spokesman Michael Milstein said the overall population of grey whales is fine, "probably as big as it's ever been" in modern times.
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