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Humpback Whale Seen Swimming in a California River
Anglers first spotted the whale around noon Wednesday, and witnesses said it swam close to shore, with its stay in the river still unclear.
- An adult humpback whale identified as CRC-11620 was spotted breaching near the Rio Vista Bridge on the Sacramento River on Wednesday, with anglers first reporting the unusual visitor around noon.
- The humpback entered the San Francisco Bay earlier this week, then navigated north past the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge, through the Carquinez Strait near Benicia, and into the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta by Wednesday morning.
- Records from the Cascadia Research Collective indicate CRC-11620 is a well-known individual, documented more than a dozen times over the past 24 years while swimming off the coasts of California and Mexico.
- Kathi George, Director of Cetacean Conservation Biology at The Marine Mammal Center, urged the public to maintain distance, stating, "We're asking people who encounter it to give the animal plenty of space."
- Though unusual, this excursion follows historical precedent: Humphrey the whale spent several weeks in Rio Vista in 1985, while a mother-and-calf pair, Delta and Dawn, spent about 20 days in the Sacramento River Delta in 2007.
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