Gray whales, once rare in San Francisco Bay, dying there at alarming rates

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Researchers find increase in whale deaths in the Bay, largely because of collisions with vessels on busy shipping route Gray whales have historically been a rare sight in the San Francisco Bay. They trek from the warm lagoons of Mexico’s Baja California over 10,000 miles north to the Arctic region to feast on shrimp-like animals […]

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