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https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/rur...kokwim-river-identified-as-a-gray-whale/

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Rural Alaska
NOAA investigates killing of gray whale in Kuskokwim River
pencil Author: Lisa Demer clock Updated: 1 hour ago calendar Published 1 day ago


One-year-old Erin Agnes takes home a load of muktuk for her family after a gray whale was hunted and eventually harvested outside of Napaskiak on Saturday, July 29, 2017. Residents of the Kuskokwim region have never seen a gray whale swim this far upriver before. (Katie Basile / KYUK Public Media)
BETHEL — The whale hunted and killed on the Kuskokwim River Thursday was identified by federal authorities as a large gray whale.

A National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration biologist in Juneau identified it through a photo, Julie Speegle, a NOAA spokeswoman, said Monday.

Gray whales are protected and aren't allowed to be hunted by anyone in Alaska. NOAA is investigating the shooting of the animal in the river near the village of Napaskiak. It had traveled some 60 miles into the river from the Bering Sea.

Some local residents said they had originally thought it was a much smaller beluga whale, which can be hunted by Alaska Natives under federal law.

Gray whales are sometimes called California gray whales and are the object of wide-scale whale watching off the coasts of California and Mexico's Baja California. The population of gray whales in the eastern part of the North Pacific Ocean — including the Bering Sea — is considered healthy and as of 1994, was no longer considered endangered, according to NOAA. But in the Atlantic Ocean, gray whales are extinct. In the western part of the North Pacific, off the coast of Asia, they are "critically endangered," according to NOAA.

No Native communities in Alaska have authority to hunt gray whales. The only legal hunts of large whales in U.S. waters are those by 11 northern Alaska communities that have permission to hunt bowhead whales.

The International Whaling Commission set a quota for Native people in Washington state and Chukotka in the Russian Far East to take limited numbers of gray whales. But unlike the situation with bowheads and Alaska whaling communities, the federal government doesn't have an agreement with the Makah tribe in Washington state to allow hunts of gray whale, Speegle said.

The matter has been in court for years. When a group of Makah tribal members hunted a gray whale anyway in 2007, tribal leaders and Washington's governor condemned it.

Gray whales have among the longest migration paths of any mammal, making a 9,000-plus-mile round trip every year from summer feeding grounds in the Chukchi, Beaufort and Bering seas to wintering areas mainly off the Baja California Peninsula.

In 1988, three gray whales that became trapped in pack ice near Point Barrow in Alaska became the subject of an international rescue effort and eventually the movie "Big Miracle."

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Suppose this took place in the deep south.
That a whale, of an endangered species, had found it's way into a river, 60 miles inland. Suppose further, that the inhabitants all swarmed around, and shot the thing to death, over some long period of time.
Unwashed, illiterate, backward, toothless, inbred, beer-swillin' rebel-flag-wavin', (known fer molestin' their own chillen). Whoopin n hollerin. Killing such an animal, for lack of something better to do with their day.
Don't worry. They're gonna have themselves a barbecue later, once it's good n dead.
See the difference?
Me neither."


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Some local residents said they had originally thought it was a much smaller beluga whale,



A simple case of mistaken identity because they were looking through their binoculars backwards


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Originally Posted by watch4bear
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Some local residents said they had originally thought it was a much smaller beluga whale,



A simple case of mistaken identity because they were looking through their binoculars backwards

Binoculars???

There?


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Agnes. Same name as the folks up there known for some open minded views on the laws, from what some here have said.

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At least no sled dog teams were killed............this time.


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One-year-old Erin Agnes takes home a load of muktuk for her family after a gray whale was hunted and eventually harvested outside of Napaskiak on Saturday, July 29, 2017.


That must be one stout kid. We need some pics.

If one can not distinguish between a beluga and a gray, he should seriously have his eyes examined.

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Says the elk hunter to the game warden as he stands over a dead Bullwinkle, "but officer, I thought it was an elk!"


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Originally Posted by 1minute
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One-year-old Erin Agnes takes home a load of muktuk for her family after a gray whale was hunted and eventually harvested outside of Napaskiak on Saturday, July 29, 2017.


That must be one stout kid. We need some pics.

In the link What you quoted is actually the pic caption.


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Pretty funny. I bet some guys had the time of their lives for about an hour before reality set in.

Way too many whales in the ocean as it is. Not going to make a dent.

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Originally Posted by Calvin
Pretty funny. I bet some guys had the time of their lives for about an hour before reality set in.

Way too many whales in the ocean as it is. Not going to make a dent.

Yeah, but how many are there in the Kuskokwim, now?


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Don't worry, they will get a tribe paid "biologist" to speculate that the whale had come that far up the river to die of some ailment.

The natives, being stewards of the land, simply put the poor whale out of its misery and will utilize every bit of it. They will be lionized not punished.

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Originally Posted by haverluk
Don't worry, they will get a tribe paid "biologist" to speculate that the whale had come that far up the river to die of some ailment.

The natives, being stewards of the land, simply put the poor whale out of its misery and have utilized will utilize every bit of it. They will be lionized not punished.


Sadly, I suspect that you centered the X-ring. I seriously doubt a damn thing will come of it.

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Conrad wrote about reality being a "long-dead hippo" in the river. I suspect a long-dead whale would be really special in very short order.


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Guess people were hungry for traditional food.

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Some local residents said they had originally thought it was a much smaller beluga whale,



A simple case of mistaken identity because they were looking through their binoculars backwards

Binoculars???

There?


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Local term referencing peculiar use of empty liquor bottle where indigenous people close one eye and hold said empty liquor bottle bottom's base to their open eye in aiding wayward whale identification at great distances. Generally use of said hi-tech gear may cause users to confuse bright white colored with bumps on their heads and one quarter the size with the generally accepted visage and shape and size of the great whales.

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Originally Posted by kamo_gari
Be-nock-yu-lerz

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Local term referencing peculiar use of empty liquor bottle where indigenous people close one eye and hold said empty liquor bottle bottom's base to their open eye in aiding wayward whale identification at great distances. Generally use of said hi-tech gear may cause users to confuse bright white colored with bumps on their heads and one quarter the size with the generally accepted visage and shape and size of the great whales.


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Originally Posted by mtnsnake
Guess people were hungry for traditional food.

Except that village never used whales "traditionally."


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And of course the liberals play the usual race card to defend the shooters.


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If only the whale was named Cecil..................

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