BATH: Another dead whale has washed up on a Bay Area beach, the seventh so far this year.The gray whale carcass turned up on Portuguese beach in Sonoma County.It’s only about 28 feet long—not yet fully grown, and no one knows how it died.May is the end of the gray whale migration period as they move north from breeding grounds near Mexico.
A dead gray whale that washed onto the shore in Half Moon Bay earlier in the week was spotted Tuesday. Half Moon Bay State Beach Park officials confirmed that that whale washed ashore near Kelly Beach between St. Francis and Poplar.The gray whale is believed to be nearly 30-feet long.
That was the sixth dead whale to show up on Northern California beaches in the last five weeks. Officials in Pacifica decided to bury the decomposing bodies of two whales that beached there due to complaints over the smell.
On May 4th a whale was found in Pacifica not far from where a dead 48-foot male sperm whale washed ashore on April 14, on Mori Point at the southern end of the beach. Marine Mammal Center officials said they believed it was a coincidence that two whale strandings occurred on the same beach within the same month.
On April 21st, a killer whale also beached itself north of Fort Bragg. Researchers flocked to the Mendocino coast to investigate the rare occurrence. However, they weren’t expected to come to any conclusions as to why the 25-foot creature came ashore to die.
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