Sentences with phrase «pacific feeding grounds»

Researchers determined the whales» current population numbers by comparing photographic shots of humpbacks in their North Pacific feeding grounds (around the Pacific Rim from California to Kamchatka) to images taken of the whales in their southern, tropical breeding areas — some as far as 3000 miles away.

But when Nick Pyenson of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC modelled Pacific feeding grounds during peak glaciation, he found that very little of the north Pacific was shallow enough for feeding: sea levels were up to 120 metres lower than today and the Bering Sea was a land bridge.

Not exact matches

Researchers at the Cascadia Research Collective in Olympia, Washington, tracked seven whales — which they recognized by the markings on their tail flukes — from their summer feeding grounds in the Antarctic Ocean to their winter breeding grounds off the Pacific coast of Central America.

The comeback in one part of the Pacific in nearly complete, a study finds — raising questions about a plan to alter shipping lanes to avoid feeding grounds

Bluefins in the Pacific, on the other hand, feed off California for a few years before crossing the ocean to their breeding grounds off Japan — where a single one can fetch $ 175,000 on the Tokyo market.

During the winter pacific gray whales migrate between summer feeding grounds in Alaska and breeding areas in Baja, Mexico, passing through the Santa Barbara Channel.

The gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus), [1] also known as the grey whale, [3] gray back whale, Pacific gray whale, or California gray whale [4] is a baleen whale that migrates between feeding and breeding grounds yearly.

It provides breeding and feeding grounds for at least twenty - five endangered or threatened species; thirty - six marine mammal species, including blue, gray, and humpback whales, harbor seals, elephant seals, Pacific white - sided dolphins, and one of the southernmost U.S. populations of threatened Steller sea lions; over a quarter - million breeding seabirds; and one of the most significant white shark populations on the planet.

The celebration is all about the migration of the Pacific Gray Whale with their newborn calves from the protected lagoons of western Baja to their ancestral feeding grounds in the cold waters of the Bering Sea.

Each year, the Eastern North Pacific Gray Whale (Eschrichtius robustus) migrates from its feeding grounds in the Arctic to the warm Mexican waters and Lagunas, a journey of 8,500 to 11,000 miles.

Each winter bearded seals in the Pacific sector migrate southward as winter ice prevents access to their favored feeding grounds.