FROM THE ARCHIVE
Native whaling agreement finalized
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 2002

Representatives of Alaska Native hunters and the federal government have finalized a whaling agreement.

The village of Tyonek and the the Alaska Native Marine Mammal Hunters' Committee will each be allowed to take one beluga whale this summer.

Federal biologists say the beluga whale population in Cook Inlet is on the rise. The whales are considered "depleted" under the Marine Mammal Protection Act.

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Cook Inlet beluga hunt is on (The Anchorage Daily News 6/12)