It’s been more than twenty years since the Makah Tribe ... be allowed to resume whaling immediately. They still have to enter an agreement with federal regulators and obtain a hunting permit.

The Makah Tribe secured the right to hunt whales ... against an MMPA moratorium on hunting marine mammals so it can resume whale hunting. Concerns about the humaneness of the hunt dominated ...

In March of this year, as noted on page 2, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) issued a draft environmental impact statement (DEIS) on the Makah Tribe’s proposed hunt of gray whales—the first ...

The kill was made after the US government obtained a quota from the International Whaling Commission (IWC), thereby allowing the United States to authorize the Makah’s hunt ... tribal traditions and ...