For the past 45 years, Ken Balcomb has taken to the waters of the Pacific Northwest leading the Orca Survey.
Orcas are one of the most familiar forms of sea life, but in the wild, they are increasingly rare.
"A lot of people didn't think we could find them," Balcomb told CBS News' Michelle Miller."And then even my boss didn't think if we found them, we could tell them apart." The results of the survey? Only about 70 orcas remain in the sound, with an astounding 40% of the population having been taken into captivity or killed during a capture attempt.
A depleted food supply is an issue that continues for the whales today and greatly inhibits their ability to reproduce. Balcomb said orca sightings were a weekly occurrence in the same waters decades ago. Orcas have been around the area for thousands of years, but finding a single orca is hard to do now, as they don't appear.
"So now that the dams have been removed, this is starting to come back. And we want to celebrate it and, you know, let the world know that that's how you do it, recover the ecosystem," said Balcomb.
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