{"id":252602,"date":"2024-06-15T00:13:41","date_gmt":"2024-06-15T00:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/washington-states-makah-tribe-receives-federal-waiver-to-hunt-gray-whales\/"},"modified":"2024-06-15T04:13:08","modified_gmt":"2024-06-15T04:13:08","slug":"washington-states-makah-tribe-receives-federal-waiver-to-hunt-gray-whales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/washington-states-makah-tribe-receives-federal-waiver-to-hunt-gray-whales\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington State\u2019s Makah Tribe Receives Federal Waiver to Hunt Gray Whales"},"content":{"rendered":"
A gray whale spouts water off the coast of Washington near Whidbey Island. Mollie Segall \/ iStock \/ Getty Images Plus <\/p>\n
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Washington State\u2019s Makah Tribe has been granted a federal waiver to resume its hunting traditions off the state\u2019s coastline, allowing the Tribe to take as many as 25 Eastern North Pacific gray whales from United States waters over the course of a decade.<\/p>\n
The waiver from the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA)\u2019s take prohibitions allows limited ceremonial and subsistence hunting of the whales in accordance with International Whaling Commission quotas and the Treaty of Neah Bay of 1855, a press release from NOAA Fisheries said.<\/p>\n
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