A Word about L41
L41 (Mega) Near La Push, WAPhoto by C. Emmons, NOAA Fisheries Permit 16163 In January we learned that another southern resident orca was missing and presumed dead. This time it was L41, Mega, a 43-year-old male. The southern ...
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Whale Sanctuary: A Bad Idea for Southern Residents
The Whale Sanctuary, a nonprofit organization based in Santa Barbara, is proposing to build a net pen for orcas in Puget Sound. The facility would be used either as a “retirement” pen for captive orcas, or to support ...
Speak Up NOW for the Orcas
K Family, by M Sears Earlier this week I testified at a Senate hearing in support of Senate Bill 5577, to reduce the harmful impacts of vessel noise and disturbance on the southern resident orcas. The bill and its companion bill in ...
Japan withdraws from IWC
Minke Whale, by John Calambokidis In December 2018, Japan announced its withdrawal from the International Whaling Commission, and its plans to resume commercial whaling in its territorial waters and economic zones, as early as July ...
SRKW Task Force Draft Actions Released for Public Comment
K pod in Puget Sound. Photo by Kersti Muul Governor Inslee’s Southern Resident Orca Task Force has received a draft report of potential recommendations for actions to recover southern resident orcas. The draft recommendations were ...
Orcas in the News
J pod in Haro Strait, 7/20/2018. Photo by Stephen Rink NOAA Plans Résponse to Save J50 (Seattle Times) Bills Allowing Sea Lions to be Killed Clears Key Hurdle Harbor Seals are Easy Scapegoats in Harbor Seal Decline (Vancouver Sun) ...
Springer’s Second Calf!
Springer and New calf, Photo by Lisa-Spaven ORPHAN ORCA SPRINGER GIVES BIRTH TO SECOND CALF BEFORE 15TH ANNIVERSARY OF RESCUE CELEBRATION JULY 21–23 AT TELEGRAPH COVE, BC The heroic rescue in Puget Sound fifteen years ago of the ...
Celebrate Springer 2017!
Celebrate Springer Flyer In January 2002, a young female orca was spotted in Puget Sound near the north end of Vashon Island. Springer (A-73) was lost, alone, and 300 miles away from home. Over the next six months she was rescued, ...
RIP J2 (Granny)
Sad news to start the new year. The Center for Whale Research reports that J2, aka Granny, is missing and presumed dead. Granny was the oldest whale in the southern resident community, and the matriarch of J pod. With Granny’s ...
Loss of another SRKW
An 18-year old male orca, J-34 (or Double Stuf) was found dead near Sechelt BC on Tuesday. The whale was recovered and towed to shore on Wednesday. Cause of death has not been determined yet. Canada’s Department of Fisheries and ...