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Sushi Spot Is Charged With Serving Whale Meat
Federal prosecutors have filed criminal complaint accusing a Japanese restaurant in Santa Monica and its chef of serving whale meat, a violation of the federal Marine Mammal Protection Act.
The Killer Whale Who Kills
The fatal incident at SeaWorld does not mean training orcas is unethical or cruel.
Oscar Winners Try to Keep Whale Off Sushi Plates
The team behind ?The Cove? set up a sting operation at a restaurant that officials say served illegal whale meat.
Florida: SeaWorld to Resume Whale Shows
SeaWorld will resume its killer whale shows on Saturday, three days after the largest orca in captivity dragged a trainer to her death.

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Gray Whales

The Gray whales of the Northern Pacific Ocean seem to be constantly on the move. Their migration up and down the West Coast is the longest of any mammal, a 5,000 mile trip done twice a year. In the fall, they swim south from their summer homes in the Artic Ocean, Western Beaufort, Chukchi and Bering Seas of Alaska to their calving areas in Baja California. Then again, in the Spring they make their way back north for the summer feeding season.

Called "devilfish" by whalers because of the female's ferocity in protecting their calves, these whales are in the family Mysticetes, or baleen whales in their manner of feeding, through baleen plates that act as filters for the whales to eat tiny marine life, thousands of pounds per day. Because of early protection from whaling, their numbers have gone from a low of around 2,000 in the late 1800's to about 23,000 today.

Gray Whales are known for their curiosity about humans, and their friendliness towards them.

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