Starving whales point to depleted oceans

Gray Whales once numbered 96,000, say researchers

11 September 2007

The Gray whale population was thought to have recovered from commercial whaling, but now a new genetic study suggests the marine mammals once numbered between three and five times the 22,000 population estimated today.

If true, the findings could imply that the world's oceans are no longer able to support the same number of whales that they once could...

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