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FILE -This August 2016 file photo provided by the National Marine Fisheries Service shows a prematurely weaned Hawaiian monk seal pup being restrained by a veterinarian so he may be fed a mashed fish formula aboard the research vessel Oscar Elton Sette in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. Federal wildlife biologists say the population of endangered Hawaiian monk seals has grown 3 percent a year for the past three years. (National Marine Fisheries Service via AP)

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Jim Carretta, left, Justin Greenman, top, and Kerri Danil, all with the National Marine Fisheries Service, start cutting into the whale's head at Border Field State Beach in San Diego on Thursday, May 29, 2014. (AP Photo/U-T San Diego, Hayne Palmour IV)