Southern Residents, salmon, and certainty in science
The Southern Resident killer whales (SRKW) are some of the Salish Sea’s most iconic inhabitants, but also among its most imperiled. While their Northern Resident neighbours are steadily increasing in population size, the SRKW have flatlined. After seemingly recovering from a decline in the late 1960s, when many calves and juveniles were removed for the live aquarium trade (or killed in the…
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