A nearly five-year "unusual mortality event" involving the deaths of hundreds of gray whales along the West Coast is officially over, federal investigators have determined. During the event, which stretched from Dec. 17, 2018, through Nov. 9, 2023, about 690 gray whales died, with peak strandings occurring from December 2018 to December 2020, according to the Fisheries branch of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Some 347 whales perished along U.S. shores, while 316 died and in Mexico and 27 in Canada, per NOAA Fisheries. Over the course of the event, scientists estimated that the eastern North Pacific gray whale population incurred a roughly 40 percent
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