Comments: A traditional source of food for native arctic peoples; this use still allowed (though restricted, and for maintenance of cultural continuity) in Alaska by U.S. marine mammal laws; IWC set an annual aboriginal catch limit of 41 landed or 44 struck for the years 1989-1991 (IUCN 1991). Evidently a few are killed each year by Inuit in Canada and Asia (IUCN 1991).