Whale Fest
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Whale Fest is a celebration of local marine wildlife, specifically cetaceans, held every November in Sitka in the U.S. state of Alaska.
Guest speakers and researchers are brought to Sitka for a weekend of whale watching cruises, presentations, sea chantey concerts, a road race beginning at Sitka's Whale Park, and a mini-marine art show. The University of Alaska Southeast offers credit for taking part in the symposium and local Sheldon Jackson College marine biology students also take part.
For Whale Fest '05, which was held November 4–November 6, 11 researchers were lined up with some of the following presentations:
- "Investigating Harbor Seal Declines in Alaska"
- "Humpback Whale Entanglement in Fishing Gear in Southeastern Alaska"
- "Ecological Detectives; Uncovering the causes and consequences of shellfish declines on the tip of the Kenai Peninsula"
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