https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/04/28/search-for-entangled-baby-whale-off-northern-california/ > Marine mammal experts are asking the public to help locate a gray whale calf entangled in fishing gear that is believed to be swimming through Monterey Bay or ocean waters farther north. > The animal, which is about 20 feet long, was first spotted off Dana Point, in Orange County, on April 19. It was swimming next to its mother, as part of the huge migration gray whales make every year from lagoons in Baja California to feeding grounds in Alaska.