Can Tribal Hatcheries Help Feed Southern Resident Orcas?
Northwest tribes are supporting southern resident orcas by releasing more fish from their hatcheries so the whales have more prey…
Protecting Natural Resources for Everyone
Northwest tribes are supporting southern resident orcas by releasing more fish from their hatcheries so the whales have more prey…
In an article discussing the annual return of killer whales to Puget Sound, the Kitsap Sun also talked with the…
For those of you who still don’t think Puget Sound and the ocean environments are in trouble, here’s some food for thought: If a dead orca were to wash up on your local beach, technically, it would have to be handled as toxic waste. Concentrations of poisons are so high in local orcas that the whale might have to be disposed of in a special incinerator used to clean up material from highly polluted Super-Fund sites.
How could it ever come to this? How could the mighty killer whale ever decline so far as to be listed as an endangered species? How could these magnificent animals, that thrill and amaze us all every time we see pods of them slash through the translucent Northwest waters, ever get so polluted?