Emergency Assistance for Subsistence Whale Hunters
[Pub. L. 107–372, title IV, § 403], Dec. 19, 2002, [116 Stat. 3102], provided that: “Notwithstanding any provision of law, the use of a vessel to tow a whale taken in a traditional subsistence whale hunt permitted by Federal law and conducted in waters off the coast of Alaska is authorized, if such towing is performed upon a request for emergency assistance made by a subsistence whale hunting organization formally recognized by an agency of the United States Government, or made by a member of such an organization, to prevent the loss of a whale.”