ZEBALLOS, B.C. — A Vancouver Aquarium expert who's been involved in attempts to rescue an orphaned orca says the calf may be feeding on fish in the B.C. lagoon where she's been trapped for more than three weeks.
Haulena says there are salmon, perch, ling cod and rockfish in the Vancouver Island lagoon, and while those species aren't part of the normal marine mammal diet of a Bigg's killer whale, the calf could go after them if she was hungry.
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