New details on bluefin tuna found in Salish Sea, outside of its normal waters

The SeaDoc Society, a marine science organization in the Salish Sea, says it recently completed investigating a Pacific bluefin tuna that washed up on Orcas Island this summer.
It says it appears the fish was healthy when it arrived near the shore and looks to have died naturally after getting stuck on the beach. Researchers say that means it likely swam all the way here, as opposed to dying elsewhere and being put there.
SeaDoc Society Communications Manager Justin Cox says the organization interviewed a wildlife veterinarian on the scene that morning, kayakers who witnessed something mysterious in nearby waters days before, the scientist who necropsied the fish, and someone who harvested pounds of sushi from the tuna. All were mesmerized by the location of the find.
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