San Francisco – Six gray whales died in San Francisco Bay only last week alone, which led to the total number of whales that have been cut off to 15 so far this year with the authorities rushing to find out what could cause sudden deaths.
The video in the above operator is a previous report.
The California Academy of Sciences and its partners at the Naval Mammals Center confirmed that six gray whales died between May 21 and May 28 and that their response efforts to find out what is going on “is a challenge.”
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The officials said: “The response efforts to respond and collect data were difficult for a number of cases due to unlimited sites and that hinder full investigations after death, as well as poor quality tissue from advanced decomposition, and the lack of available sites to more investigations.” “As of today, May 28, 2025, anatomy (anatomy of animals) was conducted in Kirby Cove in Heidlands Marin. This sub -male is suspected of one of the whales seen on May 26, 2025. The cause of death is still under investigation. The other individual did not make the decline.”
So far in 2025, 15 whales died in total – 14 gray whales and the whale of Mink – in the Greater San Francisco Bay area, with the reasons for at least three gray whale deaths that are suspected of causing bowls.
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This is at least the seventh dead whale that washed along the beach of the Gulf region this year.
“The academy and partners in the center have not responded to these dead gray whales since the increase in extraordinary deaths in 2019 (14 individuals) and 2021 (15 individuals),” the scientists emphasized.
In 2025, scientists reported “a large number of viewers unusually in San Francisco Bay this year, with 33 individual gray whales confirmed. In 2024, only six gray whales were seen only throughout the entire year.
For nearly a third [the whales this year] The scientists said: “He remained in the Gulf for at least 20 days, and her total condition ranged from her body from natural to comic.” The possible causes or causes behind the huge rise in scenes this year are still being investigated by researchers. The gray whales in the Gulf are expected to be for a week to two weeks before continuing their annual northern migration to feeding lands in the Arctic. “
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For the sixth time this year, a dead whale was washed along the shore of San Francisco Bay. But scientists have greater concern.
The long-term view of gray whales in the wake of the extraordinary mortality event 2019 to 2023 witnessed a population loss of about 45 %, and scientists in southern California reported the low standard charges earlier this year-a cause of concern, according to scientists.
“With the presence of the Gulf of San Francisco as a common space for trade and the increase in the activity of the gray whale, experts at the academy and the center notice that it is very important that all the twins – from large commercial ships to sailing boats -” are aware of the whale “and continue to slow down.”
“Gray whales often have a very low level in water that can make them difficult, unlike other coastal whales like humpback whales,” the scientists continued. “The center works with the Safety Committee of San Francisco Harbor to find solutions to reduce the risk of a ship’s strike (including changing the ferries corridors based on viewing data this year) and increasing Mariner’s communication ads for the growing whale activity via the US Coast Guard.”
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