New subpopulation of Deep Ocean Orcas Identified
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - A new subpopulation of Orcas has been identified in the open ocean off the coasts of Oregon and California. UBC researchers have identified 49 individual killer whales in photographs taken between 1997 and 2021. According to Josh McInnes, a masters student in the UBC Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries and lead author of a new paper in Aquatic Animals, they may also be off the coast of British Columbia. “I would not be surprised. Transient killer whales can have distributions that are quite large, over 2000 kilometres. For instance, the transient type of…
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