Killer whale pod visit to Tamar River baffles orca experts
A squid fisher's video of what is believed to be type B killer whales in a river on Tasmania's north coast has baffled experts, who say the subspecies has never been officially recorded on Australia's east coast and should be chasing seals in the Antarctic ice at this time of year.
A veteran killer whale watcher says"if we are correct, this will be the first record of this ecotype in Australia's eastern region"Dean Hodgetts told the ABC he and two others had been in his speed boat chasing squid off Low Head, near George Town, on Tasmania's north coast on Sunday, when the wind picked up about 11:00am."I could see sprays in the distance. I thought it might have been dolphins or salmon so we tore down there to get a bit of fishing action.
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