20-04-2016 02:36 via alaskapublic.org

Fourth whale harvested by North Slope Borough this year

Subsistence hunters in Alaska’s North Slope Borough have harvested a 41-foot bowhead whale, marking the fourth animal that has been captured during the borough’s spring whale hunt.
Bowhead whales in the Bering-Chukchi-Beaufort Sea . Alaska holds one of the world’s five stocks of the bowhead whale. (Photo courtesy of NOAA)KTUU-TV reports Benjamin Frederick Tagarook and his crew brought in the whale on Saturday in Wainwright. The captain’s father, Terry Tagarook, says migra
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