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.
Protecting and recovering marine species is a core mission for NOAA Fisheries. As part of a “Species in the Spotlight” initiative, NOAA Fisheries has developed a 5-year action plan for Alaska’s Cook Inlet beluga whales.
Yakutat Bay on the eastern Gulf of Alaska is a glacial fjord influenced by the activity of major tidewater glaciers at its head and is a region of high marine biodiversity. Two marine mammal species that live there year-round are the beluga whale, Delphinapterus leucas, and the harbor porpoise, Phocoena phocoena.
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
An extremely large dam, similar in size to the Hoover Dam, that has been proposed three times for a location north of Talkeetna on the Susitna River. It has never been licensed or constructed.
Co-management promotes full and equal participation by Alaska Natives in decisions affecting the subsistence management of marine mammals as a tool for conserving marine mammal populations in Alaska.
