passing on proud traditions..  shooting an animal you know you aren't supposed to and with rifles not meant for Whales then letting the animal suffer and sink to the bottom...  I've spent many years living around Bristol Bay, I know subsistence and this certainly wasn't it...    same excuse as the "sick" Caribou killed up around Point Hope several years back..  of course, "no one" will "remember" exactly who did the shooting despite everyone watching in their boats...