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On October 22, 2008 the Cook Inlet beluga whale was put onto the endangered species list. [30] Cook Inlet activities include commercial fishing, oil and gas development, release of treated sewage, noise from aircraft and ships, shipping traffic, and tourism. However, it is not known what impact these activities had on the beluga whale population.
An environmental review underpinning a 2022 oil and gas lease sale in Alaska failed to properly analyze the potential impacts on endangered Cook Inlet beluga whales, a federal judge has ruled in ...
Beluga Point Site (49ANC-054) is an archaeological location along Turnagain Arm of Cook Inlet, near Seward Highway Milepost 110, south of Anchorage, in the U.S. state of Alaska. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 30, 1978. [1] [2] Artifacts of the area are evidence of early human habitation.
Grey and humpback whales made up the majority of whales hunted along Pacific Northwest coast. [21] Well adapted to the natural environment, pre-contact whaling people's obtained three-quarters of their meat and oil from whales. [22] [1] Whale oil was extremely high in nutrients and was extracted from the blubber, as well as, the bones.
Cook Inletkeeper is a non-profit water conservation and ecology organization based in Homer, Alaska.Their stated goal is "promoting sound public policies that protect fish habitat and water quality; and holding individuals, industry and agencies accountable for habitat, water quality and human health in the Cook Inlet watershed.
One of the park's main features is the Discovery Campground, a 53-site wooded camping area on the bluffs above Cook Inlet [4] (Discovery was the name of one of the ships in Cook's expedition.) [5] Campers are advised to keep a clean camp as black bears are known to frequent the area. [1] There is a nature trail which encircles the campground. [6]
IWC does not count belugas; Alaskans caught 326 belugas in 2015, [57] monitored by the Alaska Beluga Whale Committee. The annual catch of beluga ranges between 300 and 500 per year and bowheads between 40 and 70 per year. The 1855 Treaty of Neah Bay let Makah in Washington State hunt whales. Low stocks stopped them in the 1920s but recovered by ...
The largest prey item consumed by beluga whales in the Eastern Chukchi Sea seems to be saffron cod. Beluga whales in the Eastern Bering Sea feed on a variety of fish species including saffron cod, rainbow smelt, walleye pollock, Pacific salmon, Pacific herring and several species of flounder and sculpin. The primary invertebrate consumed is shrimp.