Point Lay takes first whale in 72 years

A village on the northwest coast of Alaska is preparing to celebrate its first whale kill in 72 years.

[Thomas]

we did it after 13 years of asking first I want to say thank god with out him we would'nt be out there but thank god he was there every momentand second thanks to AEWC for giving us a qouta of one whale third say big thanks for my fellow captain Julius Rexford for getting our first whale in over 73 years god bless you and my he do the same to each one of us
from the Nukapigak crew
THOMAS