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Authorities say the carcass of a gray whale discovered on Pacifica State Beach on Friday was the 12th dead whale to wash up on a San Francisco Bay Area beach this year. ....
Susanne Rust13:25, May 25 2021 MERRILL GOSHO/NOAA 70 grey whales have washed up on the beaches and coasts of Mexico, the US and Canada this year (file photo). The number of dead whales washing ashore in the San Francisco Bay Area this spring continues to climb, with another massive grey whale seen rolling in the surf at Pacifica State Beach on Friday afternoon (local time). The latest, a 47-foot-long adult male, is the 10th grey whose carcass has ended up on Bay Area shores. A pygmy sperm whale and a fin whale also have been found fatally beached. A cause of death has not been determined, and a necropsy was not performed, although tissue samples of the whale were collected for further study by the California Academy of Sciences. The carcass will be towed to sea. ....
Michael Milstein, a spokesman for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, told the Times that the deaths were an “unusual event” and that scientists had launched an investigation into them back in 2019, when 34 whales died in the state. Last year it was 18. The population is still considered healthy. In 2016, scientists estimated roughly 26,000 whales living off the western edge of North America; Most gray whales migrate annually from the inlets of Mexico’s Baja Peninsula to Arctic feeding grounds in the Bering and Chukchi seas. It is the longest migration among mammals, with a round-trip distance of 12,000 miles. Following the death of the whale last week, marine biologists issued calls to the Biden administration to urge the US Navy to work with them to review safety protocols after Her Majesty’s Australian Ship (HMAS) allegedly fatally injured two whales whilst entering San Diego Naval Base. ....