He helped fight to free the whales known as the Budd Inlet Six. It was the last time orcas were captured in United States ...
He remembers vividly the day he caught Tokitae, one of some 100 orcas captured behind a net in Whidbey Island’s Penn Cove. “It was easy,” remembered Ted Griffin, the man who first brought captive ...
Beloved Southern Resident killer whale Tokitae, also called Lolita, was captured from her native waters in Penn Cove more than 50 years ago. For the first time since that traumatic event, her family ...
On March 21, a remarkable photograph of an orca named Quiver blew up on the Facebook page of Washington State’s Orca Network Community Group, a grass-roots organization that helps monitor Puget ...
March 7, 2026 marks 50 years since the “Budd Inlet Six” orcas were captured near Olympia, the last reported orca capture in U ...
MIAMI — More than 50 years after the orca known as Lolita was captured for public display, plans are in place to return her from the Miami Seaquarium to her home waters in the Pacific Northwest, where ...
COUPEVILLE, Wash. — The Orca Network put on an event Sunday to remember the orcas captured in Washington state in the 1960s and 1970s. The ceremony was part of the Penn Cove Orca Capture Commemoration ...