Annual Assessment of Subsistence Bowhead Whaling Near Cross Island, 2005: cANIMIDA Task 7 Annual Report

By Michael Galginaitis

This Task Order, funded by the Minerals Management Service (MMS) has as its broad objective the description of subsistence whaling as currently conducted near Cross Island by residents of Nuiqsut. This effort is designed to measure basic descriptive parameters of Cross Island whaling so that observed changes (if any) can be analyzed in relation to such factors as oil and gas activities, weather and ice conditions, or other variables. Special attention is devoted to geospatial information through the sharing of GIS information by participating whaling crews. Annual project reports are only for the purposes of reporting information collected, with no analysis of the information either as a self-contained database or in conjunction with the many pertinent external databases. A final report will provide a comparative analysis for all data years (201-2007). As a second broad objective, the project is designed as a collaborative effort of MMS and its contractor, Applied Sociocultural Research (ASR), the subsistence whalers from Nuiqsut, and the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission (AEWC). This report documents the results of the 2005 field season of this component of the cANIMIDA project.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 151472507X
• ISBN13: 9781514725078
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 84 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.5" x 11.0"