By Sound News reporter Lyndsay Gordon
As of November 2005 the local Puget Sound orcas also known as the Southern Resident Community (SRC) are listed as endangered under the federal Endangered Species Act. NOAA was originally petitioned in 2001, but they declared the SRC insufficient to comprise a species, subspecies, or evolutionary significant unit. As [...]
By Sound News reporter Lyndsay Gordon
For the last ten years a rescue tug has been posted at Neah Bay and for the last ten years it has cost taxpayers approximately $3.5 million of tax payer money annually. This new bill would requires the oil, cargo, and cruise industries to pay for the tug boat [...]
By Sound News reporter Lyndsay Gordon
The Beginning:
In 1964 the orca whale, the creature that inspired terror on the open seas transformed into man’s greatest captive fascination after the unintentional live capture of Moby Doll. Samuel Burich, a sculptor hired by the Seattle Aquarium, embarked on a mission to procure a model for his life size [...]
By Sound News reporter Lyndsay Gordon
The news in the orca world is looking a little less bleak with the sighting of the third orca calf this year, J45, in Haro Strait. The two other local orca calves are J44 and L112 belonging to the J and L local resident pods respectively.
When a calf is born [...]
By Sound News reporter Lyndsay Gordon
The transient orcas, those that travel through Puget Sound on occasion, usually travel in groups of two or three. However, on February 23 the transient orcas were sighted up north around Vancouver in a group of 19 animals. This grouping would be considered a superpod, where multiple pods of animals [...]
By Puget Sound reporter Lyndsay Gordon
L-57, named Faith, was recently publicly announced as missing and he has been missing since Fall 2008. This is the first stretch of time that Faith has not been sighted with his family, the L pod. Orca’s are declared missing when researchers don’t observe them when their family groups are [...]
By Sound News reporter Lyndsay Gordon
Three movies, three plots, three sets of characters, but one animal: the orca whale. A horror movie, an educational movie, and a children’s film all star an orca whale but cast the creature in very different lights. Hollywood has captured in bits and pieces the history between humans and [...]
By Sound News reporter Lyndsay Gordon
When a dead orca calf washed up on the shores of Henry Island in July of last year it was not reported five days later. The recovered body was of little scientific value, due to the heavy decomposition that had already taken place. However, it represented the fears of many [...]
Puget Sound Georgia Basin Ecosystem Conference
Environmental Impacts of the Salish Sea
“Our Knowledge to Protect Our Future”
February 10, 2009 1:30-3:30
What is the Salish Sea? It’s an all encompassing name for the marine habitat that includes the Strait of Georgia, Strait of Juan de Fuca, and the Puget Sound. The name has been adopted [...]
Killer whales, wolves of the sea, and friendly giants are all names associated with the multi-ton and largest member of the dolphin family most commonly known as the orca. They’ve prowled the waters of the Puget Sound area forever, but what their approaching crisp black and white form means to the humans sharing the Sound [...]
