Alaskan bid to save mammals
(N.Z.P. A.-Reuter—Copyright) WASHINGTON, Dec. 7. Polar bear and walrus hunting will become illegal in Alaska on December 21. Exceptions to a law banning the catching of any marine mammal are made for commercial fishing operations for subsistence, and for making authentic native handicrafts by Indians, Aleuts, and Eskimos. The commercial fishing exemption will last for two years, but is subject to a string of regulations designed to reduce the death rate of marine mammals. Conservation officials had expressed the fear that the polar bear and the walrus might eventually become extinct in Alaska if hunting continued.
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33094, 8 December 1972, Page 13
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