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Wednesday, September 17, 2003
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Great New York Times
audio slide show on the village whalers of Kaktovik, Alaska. The whalers are bringing in the season's first bowhead whale. The slide show and accompanying sound track really nail the look and feel of the Alaskan Bush. It's cold. It's wet. And everyone is still going about their business and having a good time.
The companion op-ed piece is also quite good. I loved the writer's experience with muktuk. I've tried muktuk a few times and simply cannot keep it down. I immediately start retching.
The writer also makes some excellent points about the ethical ins and
outs of whaling. I like his proposal:
One solution would be to keep the moratorium on large-scale commercial whaling in the open ocean, but to let any traditional whaling people
(including the Japanese and Norwegians) harvest sustainable numbers of
whales within 200 miles of shore.
8:02:08 PM 
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Last update: 3/5/2005; 8:36:32 PM.
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