Orcas Attacking Boats 2025

Orcas Attacking Boats 2025. There are clues suggesting that white gladis may have become entangled in fishing gear — a common threat to orcas — either as an accident or during an illegal fishing. A strange, dangerous game of targeting and ramming into small sailing and fishing boats is spreading through a population of orcas off spain's coast.

Almost 20 percent of these attacks caused enough damage to disable the vessels, says. Since the first known incident in may 2020, grupo trabajo orca atlántica (the atlantic orca working group) has tracked more than 500 cases in which members of the iberian orca population.