A gray whale found floating off Alameda earlier this month likely died from blunt force trauma from a vessel strike, according to a necropsy report done by scientists at the California Academy of Sciences and The Marine Mammal Center.
The animal’s death marks this year’s first local cetacean mortality, the two organizations said Tuesday in a joint statement.
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