In what may seem like a call-back to 1980s whale culture, a resident orca off the coast of Washington state was recently spotted sporting a dead salmon on its head. The phenomenon was first ...

Andrew Trites, director of the University of British Columbia's marine mammal research unit, has identified the whales as a ...

Canada’s regulations stipulate boaters must stay 400 metres from all killer whales in southern coastal waters from Ucluelet to Campbell River, and 200 metres in other areas.

The J-, K- and L-pods are down to just 73 orcas, according to the latest census completed in July by the Center for Whale ...

according to Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) and the Ehattseaht First Nation. Time and tides are against the whale calf now as tides are getting smaller, according to the Ehattseaht First Nation.

Fisheries and Oceans Canada has launched measures to try to protect endangered orcas on the West Coast from rising risk of oil spills, indicate federal documents obtained by Canada’s National Observer ...

Fisheries and Oceans Canada has launched measures to try and protect endangered orcas on the West Coast from rising risk of oil spills, indicate federal documents obtained by Canada’s National ...

The legal charity Ecojustice filed a petition to the ministries of Environment and Climate Change Canada and Fisheries and ...

By Caroline Hemphill Killer whales (Orcinus orca) are finding a new place to roam in the rapidly changing Arctic Ocean.