MARINE MAMMAL RESEARCH UNIT - UBC

A Window into the Lives of Resident Killer Whales

A Window into the Lives of Resident Killer Whales
Marine Mammal Research Unit

This summer, a team of researchers from the University of British Columbia, together with the Hakai Institute, set out to determine how fish-eating killer whales find their food, and whether there is a shortage of Chinook salmon available to killer whales in the Salish Sea.  Here is a peek into what the researchers saw.