Daniel J. Vos, Kim E. W. Shelden, Nancy A. Friday, and Barbara A. Mahoney researched and combined beluga age estimates, from the teeth of hunted and stranded belugas during the period 1992–2001, with additional teeth collected up to June 2015.
Have you ever seen a beluga whale? Local residents and visitors from around the world had their first such experience at last year's Belugas Count!
This all-day citizen science celebration aims to bring together members of the public to focus
Cook Inlet beluga whale photo-identification catalog and associated surveys from twelve field seasons (2005–2016) provide information on distribution, movement patterns, and life-history characteristics of individually identified Cook Inlet beluga whales.
Anchorage, AK - NOAA Fisheries presented the Species in the Spotlight Recovery Hero Award to Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson's Cook Inlet beluga conservation program team on April 6, 2017.
NOAA Fisheries is releasing its recovery plan for the Cook Inlet beluga whale, which will guide efforts to recover the species to a point where they can be removed from the Federal List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants.