Marine life experts are concerned about a severe algae bloom that has left thousands of marine mammals, including sea lions, dolphins and whales, sick or dead along the Southern California coast this year.
One humpback, one minke and two gray whales have washed ashore dead in Orange and Los Angeles counties, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries West Coast stated in a news release.
NOAA confirmed that domoic acid was the cause of death in the juvenile female humpback whale stranded in Huntington Beach and the juvenile male minke whale stranded in the Port of Long Beach…