Rockaway Humpbacks

The whales can weigh as much 40 tons - 80,000 pounds - and newborns weigh about a ton. They measure up to 60 feet with females larger than males, and live about 50 years. Aside from anchovy and other small fish, the whales eat krill and plankton. They can eat up to 3,000 pounds of food per day. About 1,400 humpbacks feed along the California coast in the summer and fall.