Two deceased whales were discovered in the Icy Strait area in July in Southeast Alaska.
A humpback whale breaches in Kenai Fjords National Park on June 12, 2013. Humpback whales, with their distinctive fins, are being increasingly spotted farther north in Arctic waters used by ice-adapted bowhead whales.
On July 3, NOAA Fisheries received a report of a floating yearling humpback whale, which later washed ashore near Elfin Cove. Mandy Keogh is NOAA’s marine mammal stranding coordinator in Alaska. She says they worked with their stranding partners to respond and perform a necropsy, or an animal autopsy, on the whale.
She says the broken bones were larger, which is consistent with the whale being struck by a larger vessel. “We also confirmed in that autopsy or necropsy that she was actually pregnant at her time of death, and so we found fetal bones in her uterus, which was very sad to hear,” Keogh said. “This female hadn’t been seen with a calf before, that we know of. So it was also a hard finding because of that.”
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