Spring has started and an emaciated gray whale found was dead on Florence Oregon beach. Is there any reason to hope this year is not another gruesome migration north?

Posted by TopRevenue2@reddit | whales | View on Reddit | 0 comments

I hate this timeline for Gray whales. Just a few years ago you could spend all Spring on NoCal and Oregon beaches watching the swim north. Now a great percentage of the population is gone due to lack of food from climate changes and the impact of thet on calving. And the strandings seem to be constant on the swim back from Baja to the Artic sea.

Is there hope as the climate warms? Could they find a more northly breeding area so the don't have to swim so far? Or a new food source? Humpbacks (knock on wood) are not suffering as bad - is there anything to learn from that for Grays?