In this photo provided by Oregon State Parks, a dead sperm whale is seen washed up on the Oregon coast near Fort Stevens State Park in Clatsop County, Ore., Sunday, Jan. 15, 2023. A necropsy performed by the federal NOAA Fisheries agency found the cause of death was a ship strike.
Blue whale on Oregon coastThis blue whale washed ashore near Gold Beach in November 2015. Jim Rice, the Marine Mammal Institute’s stranding coordinator, and others worked to harvest as much of the whale as possible.
A 56-foot humpback whale undergoes a necropsy in Long Beach, Wash., Oct. 9, 2006.
Crowds surround a 33-foot Baird’s beaked whale in the surf at Seaside in 2003. The whale later died.
A blue whale washed ashore on the Oregon Coast about seven miles north of Gold Beach.
In this photo provided by Oregon State Parks, a dead sperm whale is seen washed up on the Oregon coast near Fort Stevens State Park in Clatsop County, Ore., Sunday, Jan. 15, 2023. A necropsy performed by the federal NOAA Fisheries agency found the cause of death was a ship strike.
In 1979, Rockaway, Ore., residents and Greenpeace volunteers throw water on baby sperm whale that beached.
