{"id":594521,"date":"2026-04-19T23:13:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T23:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/594521\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T23:13:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T23:13:18","slug":"50323-whale-and-wildlife-reports-logged-in-2025-up-12-from-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/594521\/","title":{"rendered":"50,323 whale and wildlife reports logged in 2025, up 12% from 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SEATTLE \u2014 The Pacific Whale Watch Association (PWWA) released its <a href=\"https:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/581cbad4be6594d1fe23358b\/t\/69de6b75e7be285638660ab8\/1776184228060\/PWWA+2025+Sightings+%26+Sentinel+Actions+Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">2025 Sightings and Sentinel Actions report <\/a>this week, showing more reported sightings compared to 2024. <\/p>\n<p>That PWWA app received 50,323 reports of whale, wildlife, and protective sentinel actions in and around the Salish Sea. That&#8217;s an increase of 12 percent compared to 2024&#8217;s 44,933 reports.<\/p>\n<p>Those reports come from researchers, ferry captains, professional ship pilots, emergency response vessels, the Canadian Coast Guard\u2019s Marine Mammal Desk, and the U.S. Coast Guard\u2019s Cetacean Desk.<\/p>\n<p>Biggs killer whales were reported 342 days of 2025, followed by humpback whales on 314 days. <\/p>\n<p>Then there is a bigger drop off for other types of whales, like minke and gray, seen 154 and 147 days of the year. <\/p>\n<p>2025 was also about protective interventions, like stopping other boats from speeding near whales, removing harmful debris from the water, or reporting sick or entangled animals to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>During 2025, there were 1,429 sentinel actions, also up from 2024 by about 100 reports.<\/p>\n<p>68 percent of those actions involved directly contacting other boats. Plus 472 marine debris removals, balloons being the most common.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>JOIN THE CONVERSATION (3)<\/p>\n<p>This report comes out on the cusp of prime whale watching season for 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEATTLE \u2014 The Pacific Whale Watch Association (PWWA) released its 2025 Sightings and Sentinel Actions report this week,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-594521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}