Two pilots were fined for disturbing walruses crowded onto an Arctic Alaska beach
The fines appear to be the first issued for disturbing walruses hauled out on the Alaska Arctic beach – itself a relatively new phenomenon.
September 27, 2019
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Two pilots have been fined for disturbing walruses by flying their small aircraft too close to a Chukchi Sea beach that, in the era of low Arctic sea ice, has become a regular late-season gathering spot for tens of thousands of Pacific walruses.
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