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'Finding A Needle In The Entire Pacific Ocean;' Rare Right Whale Spotted In Monterey Bay
"It is a bigger thing than finding a needle in a haystack," said Pualani Dalton, captain of the Monterey Whale Watch boat that spotted it.
March 8, 2023
MONTEREY -- A rare North Pacific right whale was spotted in Monterey Bay over the weekend.
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"It is a bigger thing than finding a needle in a haystack," said Pualani Dalton, captain of the Monterey Whale Watch boat that spotted the mammal. "It is like finding a needle in the entire Pacific Ocean."
Dalton says there are only 32 known North Pacific right whales swimming off the U.S. and Canadian Pacific Coast, and according to marine biologists, Sunday's sighting was only one in about 20 confirmed sightings of the whale along the California coast since the mid-1950s.
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