The first grey whale found dead in B.C. The pink wasn't plastic, officials learned when they arrived to tow the skinny male to shore near Victoria for a necropsy last April. "It was quite disturbing to see," said Paul Cottrell, regional marine mammal co-ordinator with Fisheries and Oceans Canada. Along the migration route from Mexico to Alaska, the toll reached 214 dead whales — and those are just the ones that washed up. And as recently as last month — when the migrating whales should be "fat and healthy" on their way south — skinny whales were still washing up dead.

Source: CBC News December 28, 2019 09:00 UTC