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STATE The Associated Press ANCHORAGE - A federal agency is giving itself six more months to decide whether to list as endangered the beluga whales that swim in waters off Alaska's largest city.

Decision about beluga whale listing delayed

Courtesy Of National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration

Under observation: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration fisheries biologists, from left, Matt Eagleton, Dan Vos, Greg O'Corry-Crowe and Rod Hobbs, place a satellite transmitter onto a female beluga whale in 2000 in Cook Inlet near Anchorage. NOAA announced Monday it plans to do another population estimate on whales in Cook Inlet.

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