Gray whale dies days after swimming through Washington’s Willapa River

John Calambokidis, a research biologist with the Cascadia Research Collective, said gray whales make a lengthy migration north along the Pacific coast in the spring, feeding in the Arctic and depleting nutrient reserves along the way. told the ap.p.. “When this happens, you often see gray whales becoming more desperate to find new feeding areas,” he added. “That’s the most likely background of this whale.”