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Jacob Lerner, PhD candidate, Oceanography, University of British Columbia

With only low-fat Chinook on the menu, southern resident killer whales are going hungry

The population of Canada’s southern resident killer whales in the Salish Sea off British Columbia has been declining for over 30 years.

Sightings of thin killer whales have led researchers to assign much of the blame for their decline on a shortage of the killer whales’ preferred prey — Chinook salmon.

But the issue is not so black and white.

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