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Vol. 13, No. 43 Week of October 26, 2008
Providing coverage of Alaska and northern Canada's oil and gas industry

CI belugas on the endangered list

NOAA: Beluga whale population in the Cook Inlet has continued to decline, despite the regulation of subsistence hunting

Alan Bailey

Petroleum News

It’s been 18 months since the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration stirred an intense debate in Southcentral Alaska by announcing its proposal to list the Cook Inlet beluga whales as an endangered species. And on Oct. 17 NOAA issued its final ruling, confirming that it is listing the whal....

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Five populations

Varied reactions

Subsistence hunting

Snapshot count

NMFS issues conservation plan for the Cook Inlet beluga whales


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