Last seen in the Puget Sound in April, Southern Resident orca whales returned to the area earlier this week.
“J pod is now in the Salish Sea doing a little bit of its historic pattern of checking out the Fraser River and Puget Sound rivers,” Ken Balcomb, Director of the Center for Whale Research, said in a press release. “It seems they represent the ‘scouts’ for the Southern Resident and L pods are coming in past Sooke as I write. They are coming here for the Chinook salmon that are returning to the Salish Sea ecosystem. Cherish their arrival as representing that there is some
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