NOAA: Twentymile River Whale Likely One of Twelve Dead Gray Whales So Far This Year in Alaska
June 24, 2020
June 24, 2020
SILVER SPRING, Maryland, June 24 -- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued the following story:
The gray whale that was first reported in Twentymile River near Girdwood, Alaska on Memorial Day has likely died. It had lingered in the river for more than a week before swimming back into Turnagain Arm, but it never made it down Cook Inlet back to the Gulf of Alaska.
NOAA Fisheries received a report on Friday, June 12 that a large dead whale was sighted . . .
The gray whale that was first reported in Twentymile River near Girdwood, Alaska on Memorial Day has likely died. It had lingered in the river for more than a week before swimming back into Turnagain Arm, but it never made it down Cook Inlet back to the Gulf of Alaska.
NOAA Fisheries received a report on Friday, June 12 that a large dead whale was sighted . . .