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During their migration trips the blue whale can travel thousands of miles from one location to the next. While they migrate most whales will forgo eating food and live primarily off of blubber/body fat and stored calories.
They strain huge amounts of food. from the muddy bottoms of the Bering and Chukchi seas. Most. gray whales migrate south in the fall when the Arctic ice pack starts. to form. They swim along the North American coastline to Baja. California, Mexico -- a distance of more than 6,000 miles (9,656 km). In Baja, the whales give birth and mate in the shallow waters of. Laguna Ojo de Libre (Scammonâs Lagoon), Laguna San Ignacio and. Magdalena Bay. After two or three months, the gray whales travel. back up north to the Alaskan Arctic. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, whalers hunted gray whales. to the brink of extinction. After a ban in 1946 on hunting the whales, the population of California gray whales began to recover.