Alaskan Whale Hunt Called Off

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Posted on April 17th, 2007 by vicezilla

Kudos to the native Alaskan whalers, who have voluntarily cancelled this year’s Beluga whale hunt.

This is the third time in nine years that the annual hunt has been cancelled due to declining numbers of Beluga whales in Cook Inlet.

Native subsistence harvests were thought to be the blame for diminishing numbers of the whale in earlier years. Even with strict hunting limits imposed by the National Marine Fisheries Service, the whales continued to decline in numbers.

Peter Merryman, President of the Village counsel of Tyonek said, “We understand what’s going on. We know the population is declining so we are trying our best to get it back up again. It”s our way to help them out.”

Now if only other whaling nations, like Japan for example, would take note of the actions by the Alaskan Native hunters, whale populations around the globe would have a chance to stave of extinction.

Are you listening Japan?

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