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May 24, 2021 08:18 AM EDT
POINT REYES STATION, CALIFORNIA - MAY 25: Barbie Halaska, necropsy manager with The Marine Mammal Center, removes sections of baleen from a dead juvenile Gray Whale on Limantour Beach at Point Reyes National Seashore on May 25, 2019 in Point Reyes Station, California. Scientists with The Marine Mammal Center examined the thirteenth Gray Whale that washed up dead on a San Francisco Bay Area beach to try and determine what is killing the whales. Dozens of Gray Whales have been found dead along the Pacific Coast between California and Washington since the beginning of the year, many exhibiting signs of malnutrition.
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On April 23, the fifth whale in less than a month washed ashore in California’s San Francisco Bay Area. It was found near Fort Funston, according to the Associated Press, and as of this reporting, the cause of death on that particular whale has not been determined, but it’s likely it was hit by a ship.
Although the discovery of dead whales this time of year isn’t highly unusual, this number of them is. This is the time of year that is the beginning of the gray whale’s migration north, and California can be both a good place to see them and a bad place for boats to hit them. At the end of March and beginning of April, four dead whales were found in just nine days.