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The apps can be downloaded on smartphones and tablets, and allow users to report whale sightings in real time.

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(Natural News) On the lookout for killer whales in the famous Bremer Canyon area of Western Australia, marine wildlife researcher Rebecca Wellard stumbled across an appalling sight: A trio of plastic drums used for hydrochloric acid storage, bobbing in the bio-diverse waters of the marine reserve, reported The West Australian.

In addition to her own field observations, the remoteness of the area necessitated that she gather sighting reports from fishermen, tour boat captains and others in the area who are interested in whales.

Gray whales and humpbacks are migrating along the coast on their way from Southern California to their feeding grounds in Alaska, and there have been many reports of new sightings this month.

The Cornelius Howland reported gray whales being sighted in February at nearly an identical location

Most notable observations of living whales after the 1980s were of 17 or 18 whales along Primorsky Krai in late October, 1989 (prior to this, a pair was reported swimming in the area in 1987), followed by the record of 14 whales in La Pérouse Strait on 13th, June in 1982 (in this strait, there was another sighting of a pair in October, 1987).

Supplementing the acoustic data are visual sightings of orcas as they pass OrcaLab, and reports from land observation sites during the summer «season» as well as reports from other researchers and whale watchers who share observations and information.

But even skeptics were caught off guard when a recent sighting of a rare humpback whale was reported by tourists sailing off the coast of the Placencia Peninsula.

Whale watching by boat will allow you to quickly move to areas where sightings are reported, increasing your changes of seeing whales.

The 2010 sighting was described by one scientist as «the most amazing sighting in the history of whales,» so imagine the buzz this latest sighting — in an area that has no history or fossils of gray whales — will create among marine mammal enthusiasts once the news is widely reported.

Not many companies were running year round whale watching at that time and, from what the boats reported, whale sightings were scarce.

This orca whale sightings report is from August 2011 and should give a good indication of what to expect this month on our killer whale watching kayak tours in the San Juan Islands, near Seattle, Washington.

Over the next two weeks, reports continued to come in from boaters, fishermen and pilots relaying more sightings of whale carcasses.

Minke whales are usually sighted individually or in small groups of 2 - 3, though larger groups have been reported at higher latitudes.