Humpback Whale Seen Swimming in a California River
Anglers first spotted the whale around noon Wednesday, and witnesses said it swam close to shore, with its stay in the river still unclear.
- An adult humpback whale identified as CRC-11620 was spotted breaching near the Rio Vista Bridge on the Sacramento River on Wednesday, with anglers first reporting the unusual visitor around noon.
- The humpback entered the San Francisco Bay earlier this week, then navigated north past the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge, through the Carquinez Strait near Benicia, and into the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta by Wednesday morning.
- Records from the Cascadia Research Collective indicate CRC-11620 is a well-known individual, documented more than a dozen times over the past 24 years while swimming off the coasts of California and Mexico.
- Kathi George, Director of Cetacean Conservation Biology at The Marine Mammal Center, urged the public to maintain distance, stating, "We're asking people who encounter it to give the animal plenty of space."
- Though unusual, this excursion follows historical precedent: Humphrey the whale spent several weeks in Rio Vista in 1985, while a mother-and-calf pair, Delta and Dawn, spent about 20 days in the Sacramento River Delta in 2007.
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A California fisherman who was out fishing for salmon and sea bass was left with an incredible sight when he came face to face with a giant whale. Dennis Glover couldn’t believe his eyes when the large mammal began to emerge from the seabed, 60 miles (97 kilometers) away in the Pacific Ocean. He immediately took a video and shared it on social media. “One of the guys on the boat said, ‘I see a whale.’ He saw the blow,” Glover said. “At first we …
Humpback Whale Spotted 60 Miles From Ocean
Northern California received an unanticipated visitor in its inland waters: a humpback whale spotted roughly 60 miles from the Pacific. The animal was first seen Tuesday moving through San Francisco Bay, then turned up Wednesday in the Sacramento River near the Rio Vista Bridge, waitses till local media. One fisherman...
Humpback whale spotted 97km from Pacific Ocean home
Denny Glover was hoping for a big catch when he went fishing with buddies on the Sacramento River, but he was not expecting a fully grown humpback whale.Glover saw the whale surfacing on Wednesday while he was fishing for salmon and striped bass. He shot a few videos as the whale broke the surface o
It is not known whether this whale is only passing through or has any unknown underlying disease
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