As the saying goes, everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts.
A commentary by cetacean scientists with Raincoast Conservation Foundation. They co-direct Raincoast’s Cetacean Conservation Research Program.
To set the record straight: Southern residents are not “the only orcas in the world that eat salmon.” They are not even the only salmon-eating killer whales in British Columbia. B.C. is home to the salmon-eating northern resident killer whale population, and Alaska has its own salmon-eating killer whales as well.
While this proposal has yet to be accepted, it underscores the importance of killer whales’ distinct cultural traditions — such as communication, social behaviour and diet, all unique adaptations that have allowed killer whales to thrive in different environments. This time, their decline is mainly due to habitat destruction, including a dwindling supply of large chinook salmon, their primary food source. Rather than being an “addiction to salmon,” as Morgan claims, their diet is the manifestation of an evolved trait of killer whale populations to specialize on specific prey — a feature of their biology that has served them well in the past.
And contrary to Morgan’s assertion that there is no credible scientific evidence behind the federal decision to phase out open-net salmon farms by 2029, 16 leading Canadian academics publicly criticized the 2023 Fisheries and Oceans Canada report he cited.
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