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Resident (fish-eating) orcas: The curved dorsal fins are typical of resident females. Resident: These are the most commonly sighted of the three populations in the coastal waters of the northeast Pacific. Residents' diets consist primarily of fish [6] and sometimes squid, and they live in complex and cohesive family groups called pods. [7]
"Social Organization and Genealogy of Resident Killer Whales (Orcinus orca) in the Coastal Waters of British Columbia and Washington State". Report of the International Whaling Commission (Special Issue 12). Cambridge: 383– 405. ISSN 0255-2760. Colby, Jason M. (2018). Orca: how we came to know and love the ocean's greatest predator.
After a legal battle, all orca captures in Washington came to an end. While orca captures in BC came to an end a year later in 1977, [26] captures in other areas such as Iceland continued well into the 1980s. Orca behavior and social life in the Salish Sea came to the public eye in the early 1970s with the works of Mike Bigg.
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The northern resident population consists of three clans (A, G, R) that consists of several pods with one or more matrilines within each pod. The northern residents are genetically distinct from the southern resident orcas and their calls are also quite distinct.
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