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200 Canadian narwhals must be culled
AT least 200 narwhal whales in Canada's Arctic, trapped by winter ice near Bylot Island and facing starvation or suffocation, must be culled, officials say.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Filephoto: Narwhal at an opening in the sea ice. Being mammals narwhals must surface at intervals to breathe
The local hunters are allowed to harvest only 130 whales each year for food, according to standards set by the federal department of Fisheries and Oceans. But department spokesman Keith Pelley said: "It's unlikely the animals are going to survive the winter, so the hunters have been given authorisation to cull them."
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"A couple of weeks ago, when the ice was still moving, there were quite a few narwhal seen out there in the open water," Jayko Allooloo, chairman of the Pond Inlet hunters and trappers organisation, told public broadcaster CBC.
"About a week later, they're stuck."
Community elders and officials feared the whales would drown as the ice grew thicker around them, Keith Pelley explained. There are about a dozen areas of open waters where they could come up for air, but it is a tight squeeze for them.
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