The whales spend the winter off Mexico’s waters, then they head back north and stay off the coast of California in spring and summer.
Scientists believe the numbers observed on shore are a fraction of the real die-off. They say many more die at sea and are never observed, instead floating offshore or sinking to the bottom.
Although the gray whales are still migrating north from Baja California, fewer whales have stranded this year than in the two previous years just 68 so far.
While the death of these whales is tragic, Milstein said, it offers an opportunity to “better understand what’s affecting the other 20,000 remaining gray whales out there.”
3 More Dead Gray Whales Reported In San Francisco Bay Recently
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Scientists with the Marine Mammal Center have responded to three more dead gray whales reported in San Francisco Bay recently, center officials said Friday.
The three whales washed ashore between April 27 and May 4 in Tiburon, the Port of Oakland and at Angel Island State Park.
Since early last month, the Marin Headlands-based center and partners such as the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco s Golden Gate Park have investigated the deaths of four other gray whales and one fin whale all found in the Bay Area, with three of those determined to have died due to a ship strike.
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