whales

The National Marine Fisheries Service published a final rule designating critical habitat for three populations of humpback whales including some areas in…

It's been a bountiful spring on the ice so far for whaling crews out of Utqiaġvik. The community's first catches of the season came on April 30, when…

This spring, the North Slope Borough conducted a census — not of people, but of the western Arctic bowhead whale population. They do the count with their…

Cutting through a 6-inch-thick layer of blubber demands a sharp knife.But as a veterinary pathologist Kathy Burek prepared to slice into the abdomen of a…

On the North Slope of Alaska, the Iñupiat tradition of hunting bowhead whales has an ancestry more than 1,500 years old.Today in Utqiaġvik there are two…