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Final Environmental Impact Statement for Issuing Annual Catch Limits to the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission for a Subsistence Hunt on Bowhead Whales for the Years 2019 and Beyond
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2018
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Description:The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) proposes to issue annual catch limits to the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission (AEWC) to allow continuation of its subsistence hunt for bowhead whales from the Western Arctic stock from 2019 onward, under the Whaling Convention Act (WCA) and the Cooperative Agreement with the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission (AEWC), and subject to International Whaling Commission (IWC)-set catch limits. Under the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling (ICRW), the IWC has adopted management principles for setting subsistence catch limits for the Western Arctic stock of bowhead whales based upon the needs of Native hunters in Alaskan villages and in Russian Federation villages along the Chukotka Peninsula, and may adopt catch limits for specific years. NMFS issues the AEWC the United States’ share of this catch limit. The subsequent hunt is managed under the WCA and the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA), cooperatively by NMFS and the AEWC.
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