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Celebrating Orca Month in Washington & Oregon

June 21, 2021
An orca pod observed during TAS ’05 Kimberly Pratt’s mission aboard (now-decomissioned) NOAA Ship McArthur II to conduct an ecosystem survey along the Pacific Northwest coast.

Photo: Holly Fearnbach

Orcas found! Yesterday evening, approximately 8 killer whales were tracked and observed off the bow of the McARTHUR II. Scientists are right now trying to determine if they are resident, off-shore, or transient whales. This they will do by looking at their saddles, the area just under the dorsal fin. It has already been determined that this pod did not have a large bull as none of the whales had the very large dorsal fin.
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