Juvenile humpback skeleton recovery

At the beginning of this month, we put together a great last-minute crew of specialists and volunteers to recover a juvenile humpback skeleton for the collections of the Royal B.C. Museum.  The young animal had been found dead within the predator net of a fish farm at the beginning of April.  The circumstances of its death are not yet understood.

This was a logistically complex expedition involving the collaboration of Fisheries, the Royal BC Museum and Cetacea and required.  It involved travel by truck and boat to a remote location off the west coast of Vancouver Island (and, typically, was organized over the Easter long weekend!)  To learn more about this exciting project, check out our media page.

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