Of Orcas and Men by David Neiwert

Author:David Neiwert [NEIWERT, DAVID]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: SCI000000; NAT020000; NAT011000
ISBN: 9781468312294
Publisher: The Overlook Press
Published: 2015-06-15T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER Seven

Salmon, Boats, and Oil

THE SUMMER OF 2013 WAS A PECULIAR YEAR—A WORRISOME YEAR—for whale watchers in the San Juan Islands, and it all came down to salmon, most likely.

Simply put: No salmon, no whales. The resident killer whales just were not around much at all in the Salish Sea that summer. The J pod and some K pod whales were around in the first week of June and then pretty much vanished. Some J pod whales briefly reappeared in mid-July and then promptly returned to sea. They did not return with any regularity until mid-to-late August.

This was most peculiar. In all the years they have been carefully observed here, the resident orcas have always been plentiful in late June and early July, with numbers slipping into August and September, but in 2013, those weeks were barren of orca sightings.

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