waters of the Salish Sea, on the west coast of North America, are home to several ecologically distinct populations of orcas (Orcinus orca). The area supports...

The Salish Sea (/ˈseɪlɪʃ/ SAY-lish) is a marginal sea of the Pacific Ocean located in the Canadian province of British Columbia and the U.S. state of...

the Salish Sea, where scientists have been able to study them more readily than many other cetacean populations. There are no unidentified orcas in these...

facilities in the United States such as SeaWorld have not collected wild orcas in over 35 years. 25 of the 33 orcas on display in the US, Argentina, Spain...

Dozens of orcas (killer whales) are held in captivity for breeding or performance purposes. The practice of capturing and displaying orcas in exhibitions...

research and produce a wildlife web series called Salish Sea Wild and a podcast called Pod of Orcas. Their work has also lead to community outreach including...

her as Sk'aliCh'elh-tenaut, or, a female orca from an ancestral site in the Penn Cove area of the Salish Sea bioregion. They view her as a member of their...

Nanaimo and Queen of Burnaby. The four Salish-class vessels, Salish Eagle, Salish Orca, Salish Raven and Salish Heron, have a displacement of 4,227 long...

fisheries. In late 2005, the southern resident orcas were placed on the U.S. Endangered Species list. Orcas are not usually a threat to humans, and no fatal...

Puget Sound that was collected on Orcas Island, and old-timers report finding elk antlers on both Lopez and Orcas Islands. Before 1850, most of the freshwater...

(filling different ecosystem niches) characterize Salish Sea populations. Southern resident orcas are primarily distributed in Puget Sound and the San...

recovery? Orcas adopted by Obama girls". San Juan Journal. Retrieved July 31, 2018. Center for Whale Research (June 17, 2018). "Southern Resident Orca Community...

relative) Shamu (SeaWorld show) SeaWorld Keiko, star of the Free Willy trilogy of films. Windsor Safari Park Captive orcas List of captive orcas List of individual...

Lolita as Sk’aliCh’elh-tenaut, or a female orca from an ancestral site in the Penn Cove area of the Salish Sea bioregion. They viewed her as a member of...

ISBN 1-55017-199-2. Ford, Ellis & Balcomb 2000, pp. 16–17. Garrett, Howard. "Orcas of the Salish Sea". Orca Network. Archived from the original on 2009-05-16. Retrieved...

was featured in chapter 6, Orcas Island's Irthlingz: Community Art as Activism in the 2016 book, A Song to Save the Salish Sea: Musical Performance as Environmental...

The Shaw Centre for the Salish Sea (formerly known as the Shaw Ocean Discovery Centre) is a not-for-profit community aquarium and cultural learning centre...

The Gulf Islands is a group of islands in the Salish Sea between Vancouver Island and the mainland coast of British Columbia. The name "Gulf Islands" comes...

luh-SHOOT-tseed), historically known as Puget Salish, Puget Sound Salish, or Skagit-Nisqually, is a Central Coast Salish language of the Salishan language family...

estuarine system of interconnected marine waterways and basins. A part of the Salish Sea, Puget Sound has one major and two minor connections to the Strait of...

Resident orcas live in two major groups, one in the waters of the south island and one in the north, while a third group of transient orcas roam much...

Harbor orca capture operation was the first planned, deliberate trapping of a large group of orcas (killer whales). 15 southern resident orcas were trapped...

orcas in the Mediterranean until the 1980s, when they went extinct, probably due to long-term PCB exposure. There are still annual sightings of orca vagrants...

Lummi are a Central Coast Salish people. The Central Coast Salish are a group of culturally related peoples in the Salish Sea, including the Squamish,...

wild. Its mission is to promote the stewardship of wild whales in the Salish Sea ecosystem through education and research programs. The Whale Museum's...

as tourism and a local art scene. Located on the western edge of the Salish Sea, Galiano is a long, narrow island, 27.5 km (17.1 mi) in length and 1.6 km...

out-of-range species such as minke whales, bottlenose dolphins, beluga whales, orcas, and beaked whales visit the waters. In recent years, very small, but with...

Its mission is "Protecting and restoring the San Juan Islands and the Salish Sea for people and nature." Friends of the San Juans conducts programs in...

North Sea" using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as: KML GPX (all coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates) GPX (secondary coordinates) The North Sea lies...

vessels were to be named the Salish class; Salish Orca, Salish Eagle and Salish Raven. In 2022, Salish Heron, the fourth Salish-class vessel, entered service...