Returning to shore, I saw a pod of beluga whales travelling across the fjord.
If it comes to pass, it would forbid all imports of beluga sturgeon products.
Facebook acquired mobile messaging startup Beluga in 2011 and recently expressed interest in buying WhatsApp Inc.
Trade in caviar from beluga sturgeon (the most threatened species) has already been halted unilaterally by America.
Facebook recently launched its own group messaging app, Messenger, based on Beluga, a start-up that it acquired.
Beluga prices would surely skyrocket, fixing the caviar even more securely at the top of the food-pricing chain.
The all-time monster beluga, according to the pleasurable new book Caviar, by Inga Saffron: a Jaws-size 28-foot, 4, 570-pounder caught in 1736.
It may be best understood as a mash up of Instagram and group messaging tools like GroupMe and Beluga.
Russian Esquire quipped that for the price, the road's 30 miles could be paved 1.1 centimeters deep in beluga caviar.
Twilio says it has more than 50, 000 developers in its community, including GroupMe competitors Beluga and Fast Society.
Researchers in the US have been shocked to discover a beluga whale whose vocalisations were remarkably close to human speech.
Rather than unveil a Velveeta Mac, Jobs thinks he can do a better job than experienced retailers at moving the beluga.
But the American caviar industry is also being levered up on one end of a seesaw as the beluga sturgeon plummets on the other.
In part, of course, these domestic producers are cashing in on the mystique of beluga caviar (and of less pricey Caspian osetra and sevruga).
But in a quirky turn of history, the global success of beluga caviar has helped spawn, as it were, the comeback of U.S. caviar.
In the past two decades, the beluga's population has dropped by 90% as a result of overfishing, much of it illegal.
Dall sheep sun themselves on cliffs above the highway and beluga whales are known to chase herring near the shore of Turnagain Arm.
Whales are less commonly seen than sheep, but the most promising reconnoitering is at Beluga Point and, farther down the highway, Bird Point.
Officials won't make a decision for another year, but even if they declare the beluga endangered, that won't stop poachers or black marketeers.
As eco-disasters go, the near-extinction of the beluga sturgeon may not rank with global warming, but some of us have grown fond of the big lugs.
He even harpoons beluga whales, navigating a boat out into the labyrinth of the Mackenzie Delta, then sharing the meat and blubber with others in the community.
Facebook previously acquired start-up Beluga, a group messaging app in March.
Continued pollution and rampant Russian poaching severely threaten the ancient beluga.
Sandwiched in between those parties was a sumptuous "Millennium Dinner, " replete with Beluga Caviar, oysters, lobster and foie gras appetizers, and a rack of lamb entree.
Passengers are typically rewarded at their final destination with sightings of beluga whales in the Churchill River or wandering polar bears, which amble through snow-covered Churchill in October and November.
After the lumber industry depleted local forest, the area became designated a protected national park with a coastline famous for spotting resident beluga whales and other species that migrate here to feed in the nutrient-rich waters.
To attain true gourmet snobisme, a food must be rare (beluga), painstakingly obtained (foie gras), or initially revolting (smoked eel). (If it is all three, you are eating a truffle.) In the English-speaking world it also helps a lot if the French liked it first.
It has been forced to cede ground on this to its partners, British Aerospace and Dasa, which both want factories working on Airbus planes to be owned and run by the new company, even though the wings, tails and cockpits have to be flown around Europe in a specially converted aeroplane, known as the Beluga, before final assembly.
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