"We were hoping when we put the hydrophone out we might hear a few sounds," Stafford, who first detected
bowhead whales singing off Greenland in 2007, said. "When we heard, it was astonishing.
(3) Barrow is the largest of the Native subsistence whaling villages, landing roughly half of the total number of
bowhead whales hunted each year (Suydam and George (4)).
Summary: TEHRAN (FNA)- Scientists have published the first range-wide genetic analysis of the
bowhead whale using hundreds of samples from both modern populations and archaeological sites used by indigenous Arctic hunters thousands of years ago.
So do subsistence hunters in the Bering Sea, who are perhaps more motivated than anyone to conserve
bowhead whales. From their perspective, it is a bit like acting as a shepherd to your flock.
Mads Peter Heide-Jorgensen and colleagues from the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources recently observed a rendezvous between two satellite-tagged
bowhead whales in the waters north of the Canadian mainland.
But research shows that the Northwest Passage has opened up for
bowhead whales.
But in the seas they have managed to remain sufficiently elusive, for there to be some arctic
bowhead whales which are reckoned to be 200 years old.
The researchers reject the idea that female bears are lured to land to feed on scraps from the increasing number of
bowhead whales killed by hunters.
Alaskan natives and the native people of Chukotka in Russia will be allowed to hunt, between them, a total of 280
bowhead whales from 2008 to 2012, according to the open-door meeting on the second day of the four-day IWC gathering in Anchorage.
For survival, they hunt--while following strict government hunting guidelines--for walruses, seals,
bowhead whales, and other animals.
You'll also learn about penguins and
bowhead whales and even the amazing wood frog, which doesn't hibernate when it gets cold--it just freezes.
Brower learned to operate in the white and native worlds, and his willingness to work with Arctic scientists from the "Lower 48" and share with them his vast knowledge of
bowhead whales is widely credited with contributing to the scientific research that helped protect Inupiaq subsistence whaling.
While owning a $13 billion contracting corporation, the Inupiat continue their millennia-old traditional practices of hunting
Bowhead whales. Because natives are limited by international whaling conventions to traditional skin-covered, paddle-driven boats, they have little hope of catching up to the powerful Bowheads in the open sea.
Bowhead whales, Balaena mysticetus, inhabit different parts of the Arctic in five populations.
