Blue and Humpback whales return from Mexico and Hawaii to their summer feeding grounds at Gulf of the Farallones and Cordell Bank NMSs, California. Common murre chicks have fledged and are following their dads around the sanctuary learning how to catch food. Gulf of the Farallones and Cordell Bank NMSs, California. White shark season at the Farallon Islands as elephant seals start to concentrate at haul out sites. Gulf of the Farallones NMS, California.
Pacific salmon start their spawning migration up the Sacramento River system.
Northern Monterey Bay and Gulf of the Farallones NMSs. Each year 8 nights after the full moon in August between the hours of 8-9 pm, several species of coral release their gametes, causing an underwater snowstorm. Recreational divers first discovered and reported this phenomenon in the Atlantic corals within the sanctuary in 1990. Northern Right Whale calve off the Georgia and Northern Florida Coasts. Herring begins to spawn in San Francisco and Tomales Bays, Gulf of the Farallones NMS Elephant seal pupping season in the Gulf of the Farallones NMS, through March.