Beluga whales, Delphinapterus leucas, live year-round in arctic and subarctic seas of the Northern Hemisphere (Hazard 1988). In Alaska waters, belugas spend summer in different regions of Alaska (Frost and Lowry 1990) to the extent that genetic differentiation has occurred within the species (O’Corry-Crow et al. 1997). These summering populations are found in Cook Inlet, Bristol Bay, the eastern Bering Sea, the eastern Chukchi Sea, and the eastern Beaufort Sea (Fig. 1). For Cook Inlet, both geographic and genetic isolation from the other beluga populations in Alaska has resulted in evident genetic drift (O’Corry-Crowe et al. 1997, 2010). While some of these Alaska populations are migratory, covering 1,000s of kilometers between summering and wintering regions, most Cook Inlet belugas remain year-round within the boundaries of the inlet.