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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, APRIL 29, 2019
Cascadia Research Collective
Responders examine a malnourished adult gray whale in April after it was towed to a remote beach after initially being found fl oating near downtown Seattle.
Gray whales wash up dead on Northwest beaches
A surge of
strandings
By TOM BANSE
Northwest News Network
An unusually large num-
ber of gray whales are wash-
ing up dead on their north-
bound migration past the
Oregon and Washington
state coasts this year.
The peak stranding time
for gray whales in the Pacifi c
Northwest is normally April,
May and June. But the fed-
eral agency NOAA Fisher-
ies has already logged nine
dead whales washed ashore
in Washington state and one
in Oregon. That’s on top of
21 strandings on California
beaches since the beginning
of the year.
There were 25 dead gray
whale strandings on the
entire West Coast in all of
2018.
One 39-foot-long dead
adult whale was found fl oat-
ing in Elliott Bay this month , strandings mixed in.”
ber of dead whales found,
right in front of downtown
Huggins
said
these NOAA Fisheries spokesman
Seattle.
whales probably didn’t get Michael Milstein said the
“This is looking like it fat enough on their summer overall population of gray
is
going
whales is
to be a big
fi ne, “prob-
‘THIS IS LOOKING LIKE IT IS
year
for
ably as big
gray whale
as it’s ever
GOING TO BE A BIG YEAR FOR
strand-
been”
in
i n g s , ”
m
o
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e
r
n
GRAY WHALE STRANDINGS.’
said Jessie
times.
Jessie Huggins, stranding coordinator for the
Huggins,
Eastern
Olympia-based Cascadia Research Collective
stranding
Pacifi c gray
coordina-
whales
tor for the
were taken
Olympia-based
Cascadia feeding grounds in Alaskan off the endangered species
Research Collective.
waters last year.
list in 1994. The population
Since February, Huggins
Responders in rain gear is now estimated at 27,000,
has participated in necrop- and elbow-high rubber which may be around the
sies of malnourished, mostly gloves cut into the massive carrying capacity of their
adult, gray whales on Whid- carcasses to examine the ocean territory.
bey Island and the Key Pen- animals’ fat reserves and
“They’ve been coming
insula to Ocean Shores and internal organs. Multiple back strong,” Milstein said .
Long Beach, Washington.
whales exhibited dry fi brous
Gray whale and hump-
“We’re seeing very thin blubber. The responders back whale casualties from
whales with little to no food noted ribcages and verte-
in their stomachs,” Huggins bra sticking out, measured
said . “This is kind of lead- healed scars and took tissue
ing us to believe that this is samples for later analysis for
an issue of nutritional stress contaminants.
with a few normal-type
Despite the unusual num-
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entanglement in commercial
and tribal fi shing gear have
been a growing concern
for federal offi cials, certain
environmental groups and
the fi shing industry lately.
None of dead gray whales
found this spring on Ore-
gon and Washington state
beaches were entangled in
fi shing or crabbing lines,
however.
Crabbers and fi shing boat
owners are scheduled to
meet with researchers and
government representatives
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