Beluga whale harvested near Dillingham Sunday evening

(Avery Lill/KDLG)A beluga whale was harvested Sunday evening near Dillingham. It was the whole hunting party’s first time to take a beluga.
The community showed up in force. Lines of cars brought people with their totes and trash bags. The successful hunters shared meat with everyone who came. It took about two hours to process the animal.
It was the whole hunting party’s first time to take a beluga. The three were commercial fishing for silver salmon when they saw a pod of belugas.