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Garbage in stomach of dead gray whale on West Seattle beach

The Seattle Times reports that a gray whale that died after stranding on a beach in West Seattle had quite a bit of garbage in its stomach. Biologists with the Cascadia Research Collective surveyed the contents of the stomach and found sweatpants, a golf ball, more than 20 plastic bags, surgical gloves, and duct tape.

Read the full article, published 4/19/2010, at http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2011649749_whale20.html

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Gray Whale by J. Mazet

Gray Whale by J. Mazet

Species of concern within the Salish Sea Marine Ecosystem: changes between 2002 and 2008

Gaydos, J.K and N. Brown. 2009. Species of concern within the Salish Sea Marine Ecosystem: changes between 2002 and 2008. InProceedings of the 2009 Puget Sound Georgia Basin Ecosystem Conference, Seattle, WA, February 2009. Download PDF.

Species of concern in the Puget Sound Georgia Basin: changes between 2002 and 2006

Brown, N. and J. K. Gaydos. 2007. Species of concern in the Puget Sound Georgia Basin: changes between 2002 and 2006. Proceedings of the 2007 Georgia Basin Puget Sound Research Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia. Download PDF.

Recovering gray whales could help recovery of declining marine birds

SeaDoc-funded research suggests that the recovering gray whale population might be important for providing food for marine birds that are in decline. Gray whales, listed as sensitive species by Washington State and threatened by British Columbia, make an annual 10,000 mile migration between calving grounds in Baja California and summer feeding grounds in the Arctic. Every year some of them break-off their northern migration to come into shallow waters of Puget Sound to feed for extended periods.

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