A dead male grey whale that was found floating between Sidney Island and James Island on Thursday has been towed to Fisheries and Oceans Canada's Institute of Ocean Sciences in Sidney for a necropsy.

A highly decomposed whale carcass was identified as a gray whale.

The Marine Mammal Center and California Academy of Sciences are reporting cause of death for one.

Dead gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus) reported off the Alaska Peninsula

Gray whales are dying at twice the usual rate as a brutal migration unfolds, with whales washing up on Washington state beaches, apparently starved to death.

Gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus) found dead on the beach near Kivalina.

Sixteen gray and humpback whales have been reported stranded off Washington and Oregon since April 3, the largest number in nearly two decades.

A dead grey whale was found floating in Boundary Bay, near the United States border, this week. It's the sixth grey whale to have been found dead in B.C. waters this year.