Orca Strandings and Rare Events
Transient Orca Stranding and Rescue
Dungeness Spit, Jan. 2-4, 2002

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Transient female killer whale CA189 being transported on the back of a flatbed truck
prior to necropsy (marine mammal autopsy). Necropsy results from the female CA189
revealed one of the highest levels of PCB's found in any marine mammal in the world.


Photographs © The Center for Whale Research. All Rights Reserved.
Photo (above) by David Ellifrit.