Word: bowhead
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...their rescue caused some observers to scratch their heads -- not at the behavior of the whales, but at that of their would-be human saviors. Such entrapment in ice, they know, is commonplace. Less than 30 miles from the rescue effort, polar bears feasted on the remains of a bowhead whale that had had the misfortune to become trapped before the arrival of the press...
...regulate whaling, has been setting annual quotas ever since. For this season the permissible commercial take had dwindled to 13,851 whales, 80% of them small minkes. That was less than a third of the total eight years ago. Hunting of such endangered species as the blue, bowhead, right and humpback is now forbidden altogether, except by or on behalf of Eskimos and other native peoples, while sperms may be taken only by coastal-based ships...
...Beaufort Sea, where significant oil and gas have been found. But in U.S. territory near the famous North Slope fields oil explorers have not sunk many wells because of court actions brought by Indians and environmentalists who are worried about, among other things, disturbing the migration of the bowhead whale...
...before, a federal judge had ruled that the lease sale could not be completed until the courts resolved an environmental suit brought by the National Wildlife Federation and other groups calling for a ban on Beaufort Sea drilling so as to avoid possible harm to, among other things, the bowhead whale...
...Washington, D.C., court on Jan. 3, and there is no telling exactly when or how the case will be resolved. Meanwhile, another suit to halt exploration has been brought by several local parties, including the Alaskan town of Kaktovik, a coastal hamlet populated by 175 Eskimos. Since bowhead meat is a staple of the villagers' diet, their lawyers argue, the Eskimos could be afflicted with "serious mental and emotional anxiety" if they felt that the drilling was disturbing the whales...