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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"bowhead whale"”.
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Managing extinction: the United States' decision to end the Eskimo hunt of the endangered bowhead whale
… to afford greater protection to the endangered bowhead whale and the social and cultural needs of Alaskan Eskimos who have hunted the bowhead for over four thousand years. At the time, the decision exemplified the role of the federal government as an arbitrator of survival, a situation that is …
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Subsistence whaling in Alaska
… and most magnificent animals on earth, the Bowhead whale. The life cycle of the Bowhead whale wholly depends on the pack ice, near the edge of which it lives throughout the year. Commercial exploitation by Yankee whalers made heavy inroads on the Bowhead whale stocks of the north Pacific …
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High-throughput analytical methods for persistent organic pollutants in high-lipid matrices.
… blubber (Weddell seal Leptonychotes weddelli and bowhead whale blubber Balaena mysticetus) and whale earwax (blue whale Balaenoptera musculus), were developed and emphasized improvements on sample preparation for the analysis of organic pollutants. Marine mammal blubber methods utilizing SPLE …
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The Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission: effective local management of a subsistence resource
… that allowed Alaska Eskimos to harvest the bowhead whale. This sparked considerable controversy. The IWC had not previously exerted authority over aboriginal whaling. The Eskimos responded by forming the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission (AEWC). Protests by the whalers led to the …
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'Like Ice Floes': Iñupiaq Sovereignty and Settler Migration on Alaska's North Slope
… initiated by European explorers and Yankee whalers pursuing similar economic goals. I locate Native Alaska, the North Slope, and Utqiaġvik within the legal and political frameworks of United States settler colonialism and demonstrate that contemporary relations among non-Iñupiat transient …
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Did bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) from the Bering-Chukchi-Beaufort Seas undergo a genetic bottleneck? A test using nuclear microsatellite loci
… et al. (1999a) of Bering-Chukchi-Beaufort Seas bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) to determine if this population underwent a genetic bottleneck as a result of 19th and early 20th Century commercial whaling. This investigation used more accurate laboratory techniques to score alleles, had a …