Orcas Dying in Puget Sound
Steve Scher
11/06/2008 at 10:00 a.m.
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David Dicks is the executive director of the Puget Sound Partnership. It's releasing a report today on the state of the Sound and strategy suggestions on how to improve it.
Brad Hanson is a wildlife biologist with the Northwest Fisheries Science Center in Seattle. He has been tracking the orca pods in Puget Sound for the past five years. He currently studies the foraging and habitat use of southern resident killer whales in Puget Sound.
Robin Baird is a biologist who has studied marine mammals since the mid–1980s. He now focuses on killer whales in Washington, southern British Columbia and Iceland. He is based in Olympia with the organization, Cascadia Research.
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- Days/Months the Orcas Have Been Detected in Puget Sound
- 'List of killer whales missing from Puget Sound,' AP
- 'Are the orcas starving?' The Seattle P-I
- Puget Sound Partnership
- The Center for Whale Research's 2008 'Orca Survey' Encounters and Reports
- Killer Whale Diet Research
