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Unlike the endangered Southern Resident killer whales, these whales are listed as threatened under the Species at Risk Act, and their numbers are growing.

The surviving animals have been relocated to a more secure pen, where they are being closely monitored by CCTV cameras. Meanwhile police are still searching for the killer. Mrs Fench and her ...

Meanwhile, the population of endangered southern resident killer whales languishes at about 73 animals because the supply of their main food source, salmon, has been dwindling. Local whale watch t ...