The female seal pup — estimated to be around six months old — was seen swimming “erratically” near the shore in Sitka last month, according to a press release from the center. Worried Sitka residents then reported the pup to the center’s 24-hour stranding hotline.
The Seward facility began housing five seals found in the Cook Inlet area and another that was rescued in Juneau.
A second whale has been found dead floating in the middle of Turnagain Arm, just two weeks after a juvenile humpback whale was found dead on the Arm after stranding itself twice.
A species rarely seen in the Seward area.
Dead sea otter (Enhydra lutris) found on the beach with no obvious sign of injury although it did show signs of hair loss.
Cook Inlet beluga whales are swimming up the Kenai River earlier in the year and in greater numbers than previously estimated, according to new monitoring of the endangered species.
Tissue from the recent necropsy on a humpback whale remains on Kincaid beach
The extraordinary sight of a 30-foot long dead humpback whale that washed up on a beach area in Anchorage.
It's not yet clear what led to the humpback’s death or where it died, and biologists are warning people to stay away from the carcass.
A parasite-riddled seal afraid of the water is the first Alaska marine mammal rescued in 2017. The seal will not be returned to the wild if it continues to survive rehabilitation at the Alaska SeaLife Center in Seward.
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