Researchers have responded to more than a dozen whale deaths in the San Francisco Bay Area this year.
As of June 4 this year, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported a total of 465 gray whale deaths along the west coast of North America in the ongoing UME. Many are making a northerly migration to cool, food-rich Arctic waters., but necropsies—a post-mortem examination of an animal—have revealed some clues.
According to Michael Milstein, public affairs officer for NOAA Fisheries, the emaciated condition of some of the whales suggests there may have been some sort of change in the availability of food in the Arctic, which is where most gray whales spend the summer feeding.:"While a substantial number of the stranded dead whales have been emaciated, not all of them have been, so that by itself does not explain the UME.
In the current UME, it should be noted that NOAA data shows there have been fewer strandings overall in Canada, the U.S. and Mexico so far this year than at this point in time in each of the last two years.
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