Individuals were mainly captured off California and Hawaii, and then in Japan and Taiwan after 1980.[1][2][3][18] It has also been successfully bred in captivity.[7] However, Chester, an orphaned newborn who was stranded in Tofino on Vancouver Island in 2014 and rescued by Vancouver Aquarium, died from a bacterial erysipelas infection in 2017 at the age of three and a half. Being the fifth whale to die in the aquarium, Chester's death caused the Vancouver Park Board to ban the aquarium from acquiring more whales.[30][31]