Scientists have a hunch that the problem is starting in Alaska.
Scientists and volunteers with the Marine Mammal Center and California Academy of Sciences prepare to perform a necropsy on a gray whale that washed up on the shores of the San Francisco Bay on April 23 in Tiburon, Calif. By Kayla Epstein Kayla Epstein Embedded audience editor on the National desk Email Bio Follow May 7 at 5:08 PM It’s been a gloomy year for gray whales in California.
The latest whale, a female discovered May 6 at San Francisco’s Ocean Beach, had probably been killed by a passing boat. — The Marine Mammal Center May 6, 2019 The Marine Mammal Center works with institutions such as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, the California Academy of Sciences and scientists in other regions of California to monitor how whales and other Pacific Ocean life are faring. And biologists have observed a disturbing trend of malnourished gray whales up and down the coast this year, Duignan said.
They primarily feed on small invertebrates that live in ocean sediment, and do much of their feeding during the summer season in Alaska. She said counterparts in Baja California were reporting that the whales were arriving later, having fewer calves and giving birth in the ocean rather than in much safer lagoons. And they, too, appeared diminished.While gray whale populations are stable, California’s shifting ocean climate and a warming Alaska could be putting pressure on the animals this year.
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