The Marine Mammal Center confirmed a 30-foot female gray whale washed ashore in Richmond on Wednesday morning. The whale is being towed to Angel Island for a necropsy, officials say.
The animal autopsy will determine the whale's cause of death, but due to wind conditions in the bay, when the necropsy will be performed is yet to be determined. The whale was first seen floating on the bay east of Tiburon near Angel Island State Park on Monday. The Marine Mammal Center said it was later sighted in the Richmond Harbor Channel by their researchers on Tuesday. Experts said the whale's body was moderately decomposed and bloated due to exposure to the elements.
The Center said whale stranding tends to increase between March and May as they travel past San Francisco Bay as they migrate north toward Alaska. In addition, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration recently closed their Unusual Mortality Event that was first declared in 2019. The declaration was made when there was a whale die-off that affected hundreds of gray whales along the Pacific coast.
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