Chukchi Sea

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• Shell reportedly started work yesterday on the $4.5 billion (2.8 billion) drilling programme in the Chukchi Sea, 70 miles off Alaska's northwest coast.

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• Poverty in the villages along the Chukchi Sea coast has brought about a renewed interest in hunting one or two bowhead whales a year (Bogoslovskaya et al., 1982; Bessonov et al. 17).

  Academic text (1995)

• Records for shore-based operations in the Chukchi Sea were only reported for a few years; the largest take of 325 occurred in 1979.

  Academic text (1997)

• The company was granted permission to start digging with its drill ship in the Chukchi Sea but only into the layer of ocean bottom located above oil reserves.

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• And when the Okhotsk Sea stock was nearly eliminated, the whalers explored the Chukchi Sea.

  Academic text (1995)

• Very few bowhead whales are found in the Chukchi Sea in summer (Miller et al., 1986); however, there have been enough sightings to indicate that some whales do not migrate to the Beaufort Sea, at least during some years.

  Academic text (1995)

• From 18 to 20 April, surveys were flown north of the ice front in the northern Bering Sea, including around St. Lawrence Island, and over the shear zone in the Chukchi Sea near the Alaskan coast as far north as Point Barrow (Fig. 2; 10 flight hours).

  Academic text (1997)

• The Chukchi Sea is known for its rich marine life, attracting many researchers and wildlife enthusiasts.

• Many indigenous communities depend on the resources of the Chukchi Sea for their traditional way of life.

• The Chukchi Sea, located between Alaska and Russia, is often covered with ice during the winter months.

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