Alaska NOAA Team Examines Dead Endangered Sperm Whale

By NOAA Fisheries on Apr 3, 2019   Featured, NOAA Fisheries and Alaska Fisheries Science Center, Science/Education  

It was a rare find: a dead sperm whale washed up on a beach in Alaska’s famed Inside Passage in Southeast Alaska. Sperm whales, which are endangered, usually hang out in deeper, offshore waters. This one—a 48-foot long male—was found beached on the east side of Lynn Canal, north of Berners Bay near Juneau. This is the first […]