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Show HERALD DAILY Sunday, September 9, 2007 B9 California gray whale reportedly shot near Neah Bay THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A NEAH BAY, Wash. California gray whale was shot and wounded Saturday, apparently by members of the Makah Indian tribe, the U.S. Coast Guard said. Five people thought to be members of the Makah tribe shot and harpooned the whale on Saturday morning, Petty Officer Kelly Parker said in Seattle. They were detained by the Coast Guard, said Mark Oswell, a spokesman for the law enforcement arm of the National Marine Fisheries Service. Although the Makah Tribe has subsistence fishing rights to kill whales, Oswell said preliminary information indicated the whale may have been shot illegally. "We allow native hunts for cultural purposes. However, this does not appear to be of that nature so far," he said. Coast Guard officials created a 1,000-yarsafety zone around the injured whale, which was shot late Saturday d However, Johnson said the morning a mile or two east of Neah Bay in the Strait of Juan tribe had not yet secured that de Fuca, about 120 miles north- exemption for a new hunt. The Coast Guard, Makah west of Seattle. As of Saturday tribal police, the National Maafternoon, the whale was headed west toward the Pacific rine Fisheries Service, WashOcean, Oswell said. ington State Patrol and WashThe Marine Mammal Protec- ington Department of Fish and tion Act outlaws whaling in the Wildlife were investigating the United States, but the Makah incident, Parker said. A preTribe of Neah Bay has won the liminary report said the whale maright to resume whale hunting was shot with a chine gun, Oswell said. off the coast of Washington Federal law requires treaty state, based on an 1855 treaty hunts to happen within a cerwith the federal government. The Makah Tribe, which has tain time period and with a more than 1,000 members and permit. Oswell said it appears that this whale may have been is based in Neah Bay, hunted shot outside the time when subits first whale in 70 years in 1999 with the permission of sistence fishing is allowed. NOAA spokesman Brian the U.S. government and the Gorman in Seattle said the Makah tribal council. A gray whale was killed, its meat was agency was notified Saturday distributed to tribal members, morning that a fisherman had seen Makah fishermen shootand the carcass' skeleton was ing at a whale.. eventually mounted in the NOAA asked the Coast tribal museum. Guard to respond. The Coast Tribal Chairman Ben Johnson told The Seattle Times that Guard took five tribal members into custody. They were the tribe has been seeking an exemption from the federal questioned and turned over to Marine Mammal Protection Makah tribal police, Gorman said. Act so that it could take up to five gray whales per year. U.S. Coast Guard whale swims Saturday in Neah Bay, Wash., after being shot with a machine gun and harpooned off the western tip of Wasiington state. Coast Guard officials created a 1,000-yar- d safety zone around the injured whale, which was shot about a mile east of Neah Bay in the Strait of Juan de Fuca. An injured California gray Searchers find no clues to vanished climbers But that also gave searchers their best opportunity to peer into crevasses as much as Search- 30 feet deep, holding jumbled PORTLAND, Ore. ers came up empty Saturday layers of snow, ice and rock. as they tried to discover what Within a month, climbers exhappened to two mountaineers pect, snow will begin blanketing the mountain again. missing since December. "The best shot was today," A coordinator said they may never be found. said Gubele. "If they did fall and ended up down there, they Search and rescue teams had hoped to find the remains may never be found." of Brian Hall, 37, of Dallas, He said the teams discovered a few pieces of equipment, Texas, and Jerry "Nikko" such as a coat and a sleeping Cooke, 36, of Brooklyn, N.Y., who vanished in a storm after bag, but none of it appeared to making it to the summit of belong to the missing climbers. Mount Hood. Bernard said all the searchers were making their de"We searched all the prominent places," said Capt. Chris scents by Bernard of the Air Force They didn't even find clues Reserve's 304th Rescue to reinforce or debunk the theories about what happened Squadron, one of the outfits to the two, he said. that sent 57 climbers up the mountain. Among the ideas is that the "There were no significant Hall and Cooke were buried by an avalanche or that they were finds," he said. The rescue teams planned to blown or fell from a ledge. be on the mountain again toThe two went to the sum"but of Mount Hood in early mit tomorrow Sunday day, will be mostly training and not December along with Kelly a search," said Russell Gubele James, 48, also of Dallas. The three spent the night of Mountain Wave Emergency Communications. in a snow cave near the top Search and rescue teams as bad weather closed in. The in Oregon annually conduct a next day, Hall and Cooke aptraining exercise. One day of parently went for help for this year's was given over to a James, who later made a cell search for Hall and Cooke. phone call to his family. The summer sun has melted James died of hypothermia snow and ice, making for while rescue teams below were stymied by storms. His unstable conditions and falling rock on the 11,239-fobody was airlifted off the mountain later. mountain. Tim THE Fought ASSOCIATED PRESS . Dr. tacks n Mpmg mony Us today. With ( j m h lCKi0y.WfrtomKiyiflclUd. 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