Punk not dead <a href=" http://iorarua.com/iorarua/index.php?psychology-essays-on-memory#prohibited ">persuasive essay on school dress code</a> But the Fisheries Service scientists and lawyers were very careful in how they framed the reasons for their denial. They cited the depleted status of the beluga whales in Russia&rsquo;s Sea of Okhotsk where they have been  over-harvested for food and, more recently, for sale to captive facilities around the world. (On a recent trip to Taiji, Japan, Earth Island&rsquo;s Cove Monitor Terran Baylor photographed several beluga whales at the Dolphin Base resort. They were likely imported from Russia!)