FILE; Members of the Marine Mammal Health and Stranding Response Program check a dead gray whale on Monday, April 21, 2025 that washed ashore on the Robert W. Crown Memorial State Beach in Alameda, Calif. (Stephanie Penn via Bay City News)

Scientists have responded to 21 gray whale deaths in the San Francisco Bay Area this year, the most in 25 years, according to the Marine Mammal Center. 

The latest washed up July 7 in Richmond after a suspected vessel strike, the Sausalito-based mammal center and the California Academy of Sciences said Thursday. 

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