Alaska Whalers to Cancel Beluga Hunt - Examiner.com

Alaska Whalers to Cancel Beluga Hunt - Examiner.com:

"The population [of Beluga whales] is now so low that Alaska Native whalers, who have chased belugas for generations, agreed Monday to cancel their annual hunt for the third time in nine years at the request of the National Marine Fisheries Service. The agency is expected to decide this week whether to declare the animals endangered."

Will another species of whales make it onto the Who's Who Of Endangered Species?

It seems that it is most likely that the Beluga's will soon join some of their cousins on the endangered list.

Though the Alaskan whalers have the legal right, given the right genealogy and decent, to hunt these whales... perhaps it is best for them to rely on other traditions of their people, granted the ill-fate of the Beluga's in the current age.