
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7070313/Just-gray-whales-washing-dead-shores-California.html
Gray whales are mostly bottom filter feeders. This makes them very unique. They also eat krill and plankton and such near the surface.

These Krill then falls towards the bottom at 600M per hour, and deposit on the bottom. Bottom
dwelling critter then comsume the radiative dead krill.
Then the Grays come along and eat the radiated Amphipods.
I have liong intended on doing a study of "bio-mass" availaiblity at different parts of the Pacific ocean, carying over time.
This seems critically important. Net availability of this information, is very hard to come by.
It mostly seems, reported at least, that these whales are starving.
http://www.cascadiaresearch.org/washington-state-stranding-response/examination-dead-gray-whale-longbranch-reveals-malnutrition-and
Amphiphods also utilize the radiation absorbing chitin in their bodies.
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Arrangement-of-chitin-in-the-cuticle-of-arthropods-In-1965-Bouligand-presented-a-model_fig1_5559271
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