NOAA declares “unusual mortality event” after at least 70 West Coast strandings this spring
Alarmed by the high number of gray whales that have been washing up dead on West Coast beaches this spring, the federal government on Friday declared the troubling trend a wildlife emergency.
The declaration by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration — technically, the agency dubbed the deaths an “unusual mortality event” — kicks in a provision of federal law that provides funding for scientists to figure out the cause when such die-offs of marine mammals occur, from whales and dolphins in the Pacific or Atlantic to manatees off Florida.
So far this year, at least 70 gray whales have been found dead and stranded along the coasts of California, Oregon, Washington and Alaska — the most in nearly 20 years, scientists from…
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Exposing the Big Game 
27,000 whales is at ‘carrying capacity’? That number will get smaller and smaller as people and their endless needs get larger and larger. Not enough fish in the sea now, mountains crumble, glacial used to be an adjective for very slowly, these were the things that used to be considered infinite. But 8,000,000,000 isn’t considered above carrying capacity.
100% Agree