The whale will be towed to Angel Island for a necropsy to determine its cause of death.
A dead gray whale washed up on a beach in Alameda on Saturday night, becoming the first reported whale death in the San Francisco Bay Area this year.
The whale is an adult female gray whale estimated to be about 40 feet long. Cal Academy was able to get close enough via boat for observation and collected blubber samples and measurements. It is not the same whale that wasEarth Day: How one grocery shopper takes steps to avoid ‘pointless plastic’ The U.S. Coast Guard was aware of the whale and towing effort but is not involved in the operation, said U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer Hunter Schnabel.
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