This morning's Anchorage Daily News delivers the bad news about a killer whale population that calls Prince William Sound its home: the whales aren't going to make it due in part to the Exxon Valdez oil spill.
An already fragile population of killer whales that hunts Prince William Sound never recovered from the Exxon Valdez oil spill and is doomed to die off, biologists said this week.
Marine mammal biologist Craig Matkin of Homer has tracked the animals since the mid-1980s and said he never thought he'd see an entire population of whales -- even a small one -- disappear.
"To blame it all on the spill would not be fair, but that's the final death blow," Matkin said.
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