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SEATTLE (AP) — Federal researchers indicate the gray whale population along the West Coast is showing signs of recovery five years after hundreds washed up dead on beaches from Alaska to Mexico. The increase in population numbers comes after the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association determined in November that the “unusual mortality event” that began […]
Federal researchers indicate the gray whale population along the West Coast is showing signs of recovery, five years after hundreds washed up dead on beaches from Alaska to Mexico.
The agency has estimated the total number of eastern north Pacific Gray whales to be between 17,400 to 21,300, an increase from an estimated 13,200 to 15,960 whales last year.
Five years ago, a troubling phenomenon struck the grey whale population along the U.S. West Coast: hundreds of dead whales began washing ashore, extending from Alaska to Mexico. This "unusual mortality event," as it was termed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, seemed to spell a dismal future for these marine giants. Today, however,…
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