Researcher: about 60 whale-on-whale interactions on record, none resulting in a confirmed death
Exhausted whale freed near Port Hardy from gear wrapped around its tail and through its mouth
Findings were published last month in the journal Environmental Science and Technology
Agencies document 1,066 protective interventions by whale-watching crews in 2022
Region’s humpbacks catalogued and studied by the Marine Education and Research Society
Research shows a downward trend in the number of females capable of breeding
Population has grown, but risk remains
Center for Whale Research founder and longtime leader Ken Balcomb died Dec. 15
‘The Salish Sea has become the whale equivalent of a busy school zone’
S-shaped curve in spine made tail almost immobile
DFO warns people to not ingest meat or let animals eat meat of dead marine animals
Shipping traffic set to increase in 2025
Observers suspect whale may have died from blunt force trauma after being hit by a boat
Complicated extended operation frees humpback in Georgia Strait
Officials still investigating cause of whale’s death
Decline of North Atlantic whale has slowed, but it continues
North America’s first coastal refuge is at least 5 years behind schedule
