Sentences with phrase «whale hunting decrease»

At a hamlet on the southern end of Ellesmere called Grise Fiord, whose Inuit name means «the place that never thaws out,» the Inuit have watched the sea ice that supports their traditional seal, polar bear and whale hunting decrease every year.

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The researchers want to know if the whales have enough to eat, especially as El Niño changes weather patterns and could decrease the number of salmon the whales will have to hunt.

(4) The rapid decrease of summer sea - ice cover allows increasing numbers of killer whales to use the Canadian High Arctic as a hunting ground.