Community wonders about cause of illness.

A fin whale washed ashore in St. George, Pribilofs, Alaska.

The lack of sea ice in Toksook Bay, has allowed for a uniquel sighting - a January beluga whale!

A dead porpoise and eight seabirds found along shoreline

Dead sea otter (Enhydra lutris) raises concerns of zoonotic pathogen

Dead humpback whale

Arctic Char (Salvelinus alpinus) with Saprolegnia

I was flying on Monday and found a giant beached dead humpback whale up on the mudflats near Birchwood. I see belugas all the time but never a humpback.

Dead sea otter and star fish

Tuesday’s (September 29) sighting of a gray whale swimming and possibly feeding right off the Stanley Park Seawall brings recent sightings up to three in that area. It isn’t clear if it is the same whale or different whales in the widely reported incidents since August 12. One whale, perhaps the same animal each time, was observed for days in the same area in English Bay, sometimes travelling into Burrard Inlet and off West Vancouver’s Ambleside Beach.

A dead juvenile female humpback whale near Dolgoi Island

Sea lion washes ashore in Nanwalek.

Low seal numbers

Not a single humpback whale was seen in the Salish Sea for nearly a hundred years

Dead gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus) reported off the Alaska Peninsula

Warm water threatens marine habitats off the coast of BC