April 27, 2015
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Scientists from NOAA's Alaska Fisheries Science Center will embark from Dutch Harbor May 19 on another busy survey season off Alaska's coast.
Scientists from NOAA's Alaska Fisheries Science Center today announced that the 2014 abundance estimate for the endangered Cook Inlet beluga whale population is 340 animals, a slight increase over the 2012 survey.