Published: May 8th, 2009 12:20 AM
Last Modified: May 8th, 2009 12:20 AM
POINT LAY -- Two crews from Point Lay have landed the community's first bowhead whale in 70 years.
Whaling captains Julias Rexford Sr. and Thomas Nukapigak led the effort for the community of 250 people on the Chukchi Sea coast.
The Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission last year lifted restrictions to allow the village to catch one whale per year.
Many residents worked to get the whale out of the water and onto the ice, where they removed the muktuk -- the chewy blubber.
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