(TA News, Seattle 1-27-19) The University of Washington announces that Professor Amphitrite Geōrgíou Demetriádou of Bioengineering and Fisheries has developed a Dungeness crab/Maine lobster hybrid. The new crustacean, said to be delicious and adapted to Northwest waters, is going to be marketed a[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Orca’
June 15th, 2017 - 12:46 am § in Environment, The Ave Scene
ORCA IN CRISIS
WHEN OUR ORCA STARVE DAVID NEIWERT: Victoria photographer Mark Malleson took this photograph of the Southern Resident killer whale known as J-34, or Doublestuf, breaching while he was in the interior waters of the Salish Sea this spring. It’s a remarkable and frightening photo for orca lovers, bec[...]
May 30th, 2017 - 12:14 pm § in Environment, The Ave Scene
Meanwhile, back in Puget Sound, Tears For a Baby Orca
David Neiwert This is one of the most heartbreaking photos I’ve ever seen: Little J-54, struggling to survive and too weak to swim on his own, being held up by his big sister, J-46, on the right, and his cousin, J-47, on the left, after the death of J-28, his mother. Captain Mark Malleson of [[...]
December 17th, 2015 - 1:00 am § in Environment, The Ave Scene
BREAKING NEWS: New Orca!
Another new Baby in J Pod!! Designated J54 – sex unknown. 16 December 2015 Mother is J28, a twenty-two year old female Southern Resident Killer Whale in the Pacific Northwest. The mother had a previous baby designated J46, a female, born in 2009 and still surviving. This brings the known births of[...]
June 24th, 2015 - 10:33 am § in The Ave Scene
The ORCA
People near the Tacoma Narrows Bridge got a nice surprise this morning. An orca pod swam through at about 7:30 this morning. Cory Ladd & Oliver Taylor happened to be in the area and their boat was briefly surrounded as the orcas moved through. Posted by KOMO News on Friday, June 5, 2015[...]
October 24th, 2014 - 12:20 am § in Environment, The Ave Scene
Orca …. baby dead?
From West Seattle Blog: Puget Sound orcas’ first baby in 2 years missing, presumed dead October 20, 2014 at 10:45 pm | In Seen at sea, West Seattle news, Wildlife | 13 Comments (Photo by Carrie Sapp) After the Southern Resident Killer Whales came through last Friday, the experts noticed someone mi[...]