Comments on: Two gray whales found dead on area beaches

By: jobama

jobama — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 07:08:23 +0000

Biologists stumped… No suprise
Not Me.
Naval exercises in the Gulf. and or Cook inlet.
Is Homer really a Nuclear Free Zone?
In a Facist Pigs Eye!!!
Playground of the Military Industrial Complex.
And Retirement community for their Greedy Geezers
Cosmetic Potemkin village by the sea.
Your bubble is next to burst.

By: Clean the Oceans for Lily the Gray Whale, Please Help the California Gray Whale | OC Progressive

Sun, 01 Aug 2010 22:37:55 +0000

[...] has to do with the fact that if there is not enough food in their feeding grounds in the arctic, they will starve, as Lily did. Gray whales are not like Blues, Humpbacks and Minke’s, they are bottom feeders [...]

By: Alaska Fish Notes: July 30, 2010 : Marine Conservation Alliance

Alaska Fish Notes: July 30, 2010 : Marine Conservation Alliance — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:58:06 +0000

[...] Two gray whales found dead on area beaches (Homer) (7/28). Two gray whale deaths on area beaches are under study, one the possible victim of a killer whale and the other whose cause of death is unknown at this time. Both were pushed ashore by tides.One whale was found the weekend of July 17 at Starisky Beach, measuring about 36 feet in length. Another, measuring 27 feet in length, washed ashore at Bishop’s Beach on Monday.Marine Fisheries biologists and trained volunteers through the Alaska SeaLife Center took tissue and blubber samples from the whales so that scientists might gain insight into the deaths. Two gray whale deaths within weeks in the same area may seem an unusual circumstance, but Dr. Debbie Tobin, a biology professor and trained Sea Life volunteer, said that considering the gray whale activity in the area, this may not be so unusual.Taxi operators and other boaters off Seldovia remarked of a gray whale “acting strangely” in calls to the stranded mammal hotline at the Alaska Sea Life Center on Friday, but biologists are uncertain whether it was the same one to wash ashore on Bishop’s Beach, Tobin said. More [...]