Enrique Gili is a freelance writer covering Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability (In recent years, Peter Lockuk ventures into the watery world of the Alaskan wilderness that has sustained his people for millenia. Collecting eggs not only for the tables of his extended family but also for a crew of biologists. He is one of several Alaska Natives with whom federal biologists have contracted to collect eggs for an investigation into the levels of contaminants -- such as mercury and flame retardants -- in seabird eggs. "I grew up subsistence hunting for them. We know where to go and find them," he said.
U.S. biologists working with Lockuk are part of a long-range international effort to monitor Arctic and sub-Arctic environments for the quantity and identity of what are called persistent bioaccumulative toxins. ( Anchorage Daily News)
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