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# The Case of the Pickled Orca
- URL: https://www.cascadepbs.org/show/mossbacks-northwest-2/episode/the-case-of-the-pickled-orca-g93a0k/
- Published: 2024-04-02T22:58:22.000Z
- Updated: 2025-10-10T11:08:31.000Z
- Description: In 1931, an orca swam up the Columbia River to Portland and wound up pickled.
- Author: Cascade PBS Staff
- Tags: Mossback's Northwest, Season 7, Episode 2, #ZZZ_Episode_0a69f5a1-03b2-46f9-936b-37e13a328a2b, #episode, #ZZZ_Show_50744e68-2011-417f-9f73-f880b010d33f, #v1.16

The orca is a beloved symbol of the Northwest, but little was known about them before the 1960s. Whalers saw them a vicious sea predators or competition for salmon. They were called black fish and later killer whales. In the 1930s, one baby orca swam up the Columbia River to Portland and wound up pickled on a Washington mountain. What? Yes, it’s true.