Continued low calf count indicates that reproduction remains depressed. The eastern North Pacific population of gray whales that migrates along the West Coast of the United States has continued to decline, with reproduction remaining very low. Two new Technical Memorandums from NOAA Fisheries’ Southwest Fisheries Science Center report the estimated population size and calf productivity in 2025. The initial […]
Photo: Dead gray whale at Clam Gulch, on the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska. Photo: NOAA/May 28, 2019 A family fishing for herring north of the Clam Gulch Recreation Area on the Kenai Peninsula last Wednesday discovered a dead whale. They reported this stranding to NOAA Fisheries this past Friday with a photograph. Marine mammal […]
NOAA has received report of a gray whale stranded along the coast of Kodiak. The report came in late yesterday to NOAA’s Office of Law Enforcement Kodiak Office and the Sun’aq Tribe of Kodiak, a NOAA marine mammal stranding partner. This is the third dead gray whale reported this year in Alaska, along with a carcass reported […]
Gray whales alter their calling behavior to compensate for increasing levels of noise to improve their chances of being heard by other gray whales. Hearing each other is key to whale survival. NOAA scientists Marilyn Dahlheim and Manuel Castellote found that the number of times a gray whale calls is adjusted depending on the […]
