Fishing businesses in Mat-Su warned that the rules could hurt the state's tourism economy.
The whale is located in an inaccessible place where scientists are unable to take a necropsy.
The latest tally of beetle kill shows more than 550,000 acres of forest with dead spruce from the ongoing infestation this year alone, much of it in Mat-Su.
Scientists have narrowed down the top likely causes of more than 1,400 seal deaths across New England.
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