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#SouthernResident

Global News BC: Man accused of following, posing with B.C. orcas, DFO investigating https://globalnews.ca/news/9813745/bc-orca-harassment-investigation/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #DepartmentofFisheriesandOceans #SouthernResidentKillerWhale #killerwhaleharassment #southernresidentorca #southernresident #whaleregulations #orcaharassment #Environment #killerwhale #orcaharass #Wildlife #Orca #DFO

They grow up so fast ...

Here's J59 with her mom, J37 Hy'Shqa, in a photo from last March after she was born (side by side), and in a photo from 16 days ago (daughter in front).

I'm hoping the #SamishNation will hold their #potlatch naming ceremony soon; I want to refer to her by name, not number.

#PNW #SalishSea #SouthernResident #Orcas #StraitOfJuanDeFuca #Cetaceans #BritishColumbia #Washington #CenterForWhaleResearch

Photo from March, 2022, of newborn orca female J59 swimming alongside her mother, J37 Hy'Shqa; the water is a brilliant cornflower blue, and the sun is shining on the slick black skin of the orcas. As with all orcas, the curve of J59's jaw makes her seem to be smiling.

Photo from April 8, 2023, of 1 year old orca female J59 swimming in front of her mother, J37 Hy'Shqa, The water is a chill and melancholy battleship grey, and J59 can be seen from snout to dorsal fin creating a small bow-wave of bubbling clear water as the swim right to left. In the dim, blurry background can be seen the coast, with some white buildings on the right-hand side.

After 65 years of failing to generate a single kW, the process of removing the Enloe dam and opening up 340 miles of #salmon habitat in #Washington and #BritishColumbia was jumpstarted in December by an allocation of funds by #NOAA

Have #hope.
Keep the pressure on.
Support politicians willing to put our time, energy and money into remediating anthropogenic problems to secure all our futures.

#MariaCantwell #PattyMurray #JayInslee #Heroes #SouthernResident #Orcas #PNW #SimilkameenRiver