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[Victoria Watcher]

Killer whale calf found emaciated, struggling to breathe in B.C. waters

 

 

In an encounter off B.C.'s Swiftsure Bank, a biologist recounts how the emaciated southern resident killer whale calf appeared to stop breathing.

https://www.timescol...-waters-9648634

 

[Victoria Watcher]

Lack of salmon may not be the problem after all for endangered orcas, report suggests

 

The most recent census of the endangered southern residents found they number just 73, compared with the growing population of the northern residents at about 300.

https://www.timescol...uggests-9656084

[E2V]

Where is this leading? More restrictions to shipping, commercial and recreational use of the Salish Sea to keep things quiet for 73 Orcas?

[Victoria Watcher]

Not sure. But lots of the fishing restrictions have been to protect feed stock, no? Is that no longer necessary?

[Victoria Watcher]

I don’t know why it’s the end of the world if we lose the 73 orcas. EVERY species eventually dies off.


https://en.m.wikiped...ly between taxa.


More than 99% of all species that ever lived on Earth, amounting to over five billion species, are estimated to have died out.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 15 October 2024 - 06:28 AM.