Government announces measures to help save key whale species.In June, it announced further measures to help the endangered population, including reducing underwater vessel noise and better monitoring of pollution. In May, Canada's federal government announced plans to cut the allowable catch of chinook by 25 to 35 per cent. "They're not getting enough nutrition, enough chinook salmon to maintain a pregnancy or nurse an infant when it's born," he said. When there is a successful birth, the calf usually dies. He's been studying the population for more than four decades and says they were thriving at one point.īut now, he said, the pods are plagued by miscarriage after miscarriage. The west coast orca population is reliant on chinook salmon. I'm sure that she's aware that it's deceased, and it may be some sort of ritual. "She spent the first half-hour probably with a calf she hoped to revive - and now she's spent days pushing the carcass around. "That's a mother's first response is to get the baby to the surface to get air," he said. Crews observing the whale said she was still keeping it afloat as of Friday.
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