Keep me posted if it's doable for a fine arts leaning (anti-technically minded) knuckle dragging lout like me
I asked a First Nations elder from Kitamaat what the whale situation was like here before Europeans turned up. He said that knowledge was lost when about 75% of their people died from smallpox and all the villages in the Douglas Channel system collapsed with the survivors moving to Kitamaat.
A Sperm Whale was recorded echo locating prey off the north end of Vancouver Island last year, or the year before last. If you see them blow from behind, the blow goes to the left because their blow holes are left of centre for some reason.
A Pacific Right Whale was spotted off of Haida Gwaii.
We think we saw a Fin Whale (slightly smaller and slimmer than a Blue Whale) in Douglas Channel once.
Given a chance, the number of species and individuals should be increasing for a long time.