I saw that.
What an absolute tragedy. This on top of the recent events where an Orca gave birth to a baby female Orca who died an hour later and the mother Orca kept trying to keep her daughter afloat for 17 days. (Man, that was tough to watch. Heart breaking.) And now this. I keep checking google to see if hopefully they are wrong and she is somehow found alive. (And if she is alive, they need to capture her and take her in for treatment.)
From what I read those Orca are unique in that they eat pacific salmon (not seals and the like as do other subsets of orca). Apparently they are starving to death because of the lack of suitable food. Humans will over fish until there are no fish left. We need to stop this nonsense now. There needs to be a complete and total ban on fishing for west coast salmon, including the native fisherman. In addition, fish stocks need to be introduced into the wild immediately. (I have very real doubts that anyone in the government will act on this however, especially in the Trump world.)
There are only 74 of these Orcas alive now on the west coast, down from 100 a few years ago and only 3 born in the last 3 years. We need to step in and prevent these amazing animals from dying.
