The necropsies are conducted, when it's feasible, when the animal is able to be brought to shore to be necropsied in a location that's safe. Those necropsies are conducted by veterinarians. Those are professional, trained, scientific opinions of the cause of mortality, which is intended to identify the specific cause of death. In the case of those animals from 2017, many were undetermined in terms of the specific cause of death. In other cases, there was some, for example, suspected blunt force trauma.
On September 27th, 2022. See this statement in context.