The puzzle of the Cook Inlet belugasNMFS biologist says population has not recovered as expected after cessation of subsistence harvesting of whales several years ago Alan Bailey Petroleum News
The National Marine Fisheries Service has viewed the overharvesting of Cook Inlet beluga whales as the prime reason for a sharp decline in the whale’s population between 1994 and 1998, a decline that ultimately led to the listing of the whales as endangered under the Endangered Species Act in 2008,....
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