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- Orca recovery effort: more of the same
  Posted by Jeff from crosscut.com
  A plan to save Puget Sound orcas calls for $50 million spent over 28 years but amounts to doing no more than we're already doing. Meanwhile, no one knows why the orca population is declining, and the only clear culprit is a lack of their favorite food: chinook salmon. A moratorium on chinook fishing may be the only solution.
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- Puget Sound orcas feeding in California -- again
  Posted by Jeff from Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  In what a leading orca researcher calls an ominous sign, a group of the killer whales that frequent Puget Sound and nearby waters has turned up feeding off the coast of California for the sixth winter in a row. L pod, one of three orca families that frequent Washington waters, was spotted Sunday off Monterey Bay.
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- Local Severed orca fin on beach stuns researchers
  Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times
  Canadian officials said the fin belonged to T086, an adult female transient killer whale known to Canadian researchers since 1984 by the distinct markings on the fin.
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- Local Opponents have say on Navy's dolphin patrol plan
  Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times
  The Navy held a public meeting Wednesday evening to offer information and solicit feedback about a plan to use trained sea lions and dolphins to patrol the waters off Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor near Bremerton. The Navy recently began to study the environmental impacts of using the animals in Puget Sound, which, in the case of the dolphins, is outside their natural environment. An earlier article on this proposal is here. Puget Sound is home to the endangered Orca Whale (also a dolphin).
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- 3 orcas missing from endangered pods
  Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times
  Three young adult killer whales — members of the family groups that spend their summers chasing salmon around the San Juan Islands — have not been seen in weeks and are feared dead, researchers said Tuesday.
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- Environmental deal struck to allow Navy sonar for war games
  Posted by Billbar from Honolulu Star Bulletin
  The world's largest naval war games will go on as planned, with the 35 warships from the United States and seven Pacific Rim countries allowed to use active sonar. Yesterday, a federal court in California approved a settlement that requires safeguards, including a 25-mile sonar-free buffer zone around the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Marine National Monument recently created by President Bush, and significant increases in monitoring for marine mammals during sonar drills.
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- Washington state's killer whale officially listed as endangered today
  Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times
  Orcas are now endangered. Might lead to improved habitat protection for their food - salmon.
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Timhollis comments on:
Orca recovery effort: more of the same

Great picture and a worthwhile cause. Thanks.

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1:22 pm 2/16/08
rwtaylor comments on:
Local Opponents have say on Navy's dolphin patrol plan

How about using sharks?

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8:36 pm 5/31/07
Jeff comments on:
Local Opponents have say on Navy's dolphin patrol plan

Apparently, we may start killing sea lions soon:

“The bill would create a temporary fast-track process for Oregon, Washington and the four Columbia River treaty tribes to get permits to kill a limited number of the sea lions when nonlethal harassment has failed.”

So the message is clear, join the Navy or risk being shot! And stop snacking.

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7:00 pm 3/29/07