Chopping ice to get to open water, Alaska bowhead whalers begin season
SEAFOOD.COM NEWS - April 14, 2014
Barrow whaling captain Herman Ahsoak took a break from chopping a trail through the sea ice on the first day of the spring whaling season to ponder the upcoming hunt. He and his crew had been on the ice for five days at that point and were chipping away by hand with ice picks to break trail and get their boats to open water.
The season started a week ago, and excitement overtook exhaustion as Ahsoak and his young five- to eight-man crew worked away. They were already about three miles from shore Thursday evening, and still had a ways to go, Ahsoak said from the ice.
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