Environmental contamination is a serious issue for these whales, and it is exacerbated during times of nutritional stress when their toxic blubber is metabolized to maintain body functions. Ken Balcomb More Quotes by Ken Balcomb More Quotes From Ken Balcomb The baby was so newborn, it didn’t have blubber. It kept sinking, and the mother would raise it to the surface. Ken Balcomb science The cause is lack of sufficient food resources in their foraging area, there's not enough food, and that's due to environmental reasons. Ken Balcomb top-news The hatcheries are not working, you're genetically homogenizing the populations and they're smaller and less fit and more expensive to produce. Ken Balcomb top-news We hope this is a sustained upswing in the population, but they are endangered and will remain endangered until we can get their population up over 100. Ken Balcomb top-news There are only about a dozen reproductively viable females remaining in this population and very little possible recruitment to this cohort within the next few years. Ken Balcomb environment
