Evening Report from Neah Bay

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FROM WASHINGTON CITIZEN'S COASTAL ALLIANCE

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UPDATE: PROTESTORS RETURN SAFELY

Makah go home empty-handed

 

Ocean Defense International vessel 'Avocet' returned home safely after

monitoring Makah hunting activities for most of the day.

 

Bill Moss of the World Whale Police is still in police custody in Tacoma,

Washington. His patrol boat 'Tiger' has been impounded by the Coast Guard in

Neah Bay, after being seriously damaged by Coast Guard patrol boats.

 

Julie Woodyer, the other person present on 'Tiger', was injured in the Coast

Guard ramming, and is presently recuperating from her injuries at an

undisclosed location.

 

Your help is still urgently needed. Please pass on the following information

to as many like-minded people as possible. Contributions to the groups

presently on-site can be mailed to:

 

c/o Olson's Marina

444 Front St.

Sekiu, Washington USA

98381

 

Or, you can call in with a credit card donation:

(360) 963-2311

 

You can make a contribution to these groups:

 

-Ocean Defense International

-Peninsula Citizens for the Protection of Whales

-World Whale Police

 

Or, you can simply make a donation where it will do the most good for

everyone with a gift to the WCCA fund.

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FROM KOMO-TV, SEATTLE

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Makah Tribe Return Home Without Harpooning Whale

 

April 17, 2000

 

NEAH BAY - Members of the Makah Indian Tribe returned home Monday evening

without harpooning a whale. They say they might resume the hunt again

Tuesday.

 

They began hunting the grey whale again Monday morning after the Makah

Whaling Commission issued a permit to the Paul Parker family.

 

And waiting for them were anti-whaling forces. The Coast Guard seized a

protest boat before noon. The Coast Guard is enforcing a 500-yard

restriction zone around the whale hunt. A protest boat tried to close in and

was bumped and stopped by the Coast Guard. Two people on board were

arrested.

 

Five families have been preparing to hunt as the spring gray whale migration

from birthing grounds in Mexico to feeding grounds off Alaska gets under

way. Protest groups have been monitoring the area by boat.

 

A tribal whaling crew took the Makah's first whale in 70 years last May 17.

The tribe is allowed to hunt up to five whales per year.

 

Should They Be Allowed?

 

In an exclusive KOMO News poll Monday, we asked Puget Sound area residents

what they thought of the latest hunt.

 

 

42% of those contacted say the tribe should not be allowed to hunt any

whales.

27% say the tribe should be allowed to hunt fewer than 5 whales per year.

25% say the tribe should be able to go ahead with the hunts as they have

been.

5% say the Maka Tribe should be allowed to hunt for more than 5 whales per

year.

In our poll, women were more likely than men to say the tribe should not be

allowed to hunt for whales at all.

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