A NOAA study used a survey of randomly selected Alaska households to ask about “willingness to pay” for recovery of Cook Inlet belugas. Via AlaskaBeacon
The population is believed to have totaled about 1,300 in 1979, but there was a precipitous drop in the 1990s, a crash blamed on overhunting during that decade. The marine mammals face numerous and, scientists say, including industrial noise from Anchorage and elsewhere in the inlet, habitat loss, pollution and contaminants, diseases, potential mass strandings and loss of prey. Climate change plays a role, exacerbating some of the individual threats, scientists say.
For several years, the belugas’ prospects seemed dim. By 2018, the population was estimated to be below 300, according to NOAA Fisheries., an independent, nonpartisan news organization that covers Alaska state government.
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