Puget Sound orca pod threatened by salmon decline The orcas lurking beneath the surface of Washington state's Puget Sound are some of nature's most magnificent, imposing and endangered species ...

The Chinook salmon that they mostly rely on, their population is crashing because of habitat destruction," said Roberts, the Puget Sound program director for Washington Conservation Action.

In 1987, killer whales in Puget Sound donned salmon “hats,” carrying dead fish on their heads. Now, a photo of an orca has observers wondering if the trend has returned.

Orcas are wearing dead salmon on their heads in a sound in Washington. Youtube The dead salmon hat trend of 1987, which also originated in Puget Sound, started with just one female orca who began ...

In 2021, about 3.7 million pink salmon returned to Puget Sound. "Pink salmon tend to swim in high-density aggregations, sort of at the shoreline, so they are a bit easier for folks to observe.

The Chinook salmon that they mostly rely on, their population is crashing because of habitat destruction," said Roberts, the Puget Sound program director for Washington Conservation Action.