“Just as in previous years of widespread starvation, there is a new wave of individuals entering Puget Sound searching for food,” Susan Berta, Orca Network executive director, stated in her letter to the state’s Department of Natural Resources. “Starvation with an unknown underlying cause” was likely responsible for the die off 20 years ago, the Cascadia Research Collective determined, and it may have led the whales to look for food around the tidal flats of Whidbey and Camano islands. Known as an Unusual Mortality Event, or UME, a large die-off among marine mammal populations demands immediate response, the organization said. The Orca Network says it fears another large die-off of gray whales is occurring as it did in 19, when 651 strandings were reported along the Pacific Coast.
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